A new study compares the effectiveness of two antisepsis aqueous solutions in reducing the risk of infection in patients requiring surgery for open fractures. The research team found that contrary to ...

Studies evaluating surgical-site infection have had conflicting results with respect to the use of alcohol solutions containing iodine povacrylex or chlorhexidine gluconate as skin antisepsis before ...

Healthcare acquired infections cause 271 patient deaths per day and result in $3 billion in costs each year. These are alarming figures, particularly in a time that is zeroing in on value-based care. ...

The CDC makes the following 13 recommendations for indications for handwashing and hand antisepsis in its “Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings.” 1. When hands are visibly dirty or ...

DALLAS -- Patients undergoing complex facial flap reconstruction for cancer or other reasons could have their risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) reduced if treated with common topical antisepsis ...

Patients undergoing major inpatient operations are being discharged from the hospital rapidly, and infections are becoming the main reason for emergency room visits and re-admissions. A major, yet ...

Despite the availability of best-practice guidelines, healthcare-associated infections remain a serious problem in the United States. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1.7 million people will contract ...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) recently updated its guidelines for antisepsis and nasal decolonization. These updates lend weight to long-held practices and offer guidance ...

An emerging approach that uses aqueous chlorhexidine to prevent infections after intravitreal injections to deliver drugs into the eye is as effective as the long prevailing method that uses povidone ...

Applying iodine povacrylex in alcohol instead of chlorhexidine gluconate before surgery is associated with fewer surgical site infections in closed, but not open, extremity fractures, new research ...

Since the patient's skin is a major source of pathogens that cause surgical-site infection, optimization of preoperative skin antisepsis may decrease postoperative infections. We hypothesized that ...

New Orleans, LA – Orthopaedics faculty at LSU Health New Orleans participated in a study comparing two antisepsis aqueous solutions in reducing the risk of infection in patients requiring surgery for ...