Comparison of the efficacy of chlorhexidine gluconate versus povidone iodine as preoperative skin preparation for the prevention of surgical site infections in clean-contaminated upper abdominal surgeries

Surgery Today

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1378-1384

  Srinivas, Anirudh ^a   Kaman, Lileswar ^a   Raj, Prithivi ^a   Gautam, Vikas ^a   Dahiya, Divya ^a   Singh, Gurpreet ^a   Singh, Rajinder ^a   Medhi, Bikash ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Chlorhexidine; Clean contaminated surgeries; Povidone iodine; Skin preparation solutions; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; POVIDONE IODINE; CHLORHEXIDINE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SKIN PREPARATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMEN; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POVIDONE-IODINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SOLUTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945440391     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-014-1078-y     Document Type: Article

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