Evaluation of iodophor skin preparation techniques and factors influencing drainage from ventral midline incisions in horses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 215, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 963-969

  Galuppo, Larry D ^a   Pascoe, John R ^a   Jang, Spencer S ^a   Willits, Neil H ^b   Greenman, Sylvia L ^a,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODOPHOR; POVIDONE IODINE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLIC; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INJURY; MICROBIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; COLIC; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DERMATITIS; DRAINAGE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IODOPHORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; POVIDONE-IODINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033208650     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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