Background Prevention of surgical-site infection (SSI) has received increasing attention.
Clinical trials have focused on the role of skin antisepsis in preventing SSI. The benefit of …

Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most frequent health care–associated
infections. One of the practices to reduce their incidence is preoperative skin antisepsis. Two …

Background Skin antiseptic agents are used to prevent surgical-site infection (SSI); few trials
have reported the superiority of any specific agent in clean-contaminated abdominal …

Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) is the most common hospital-acquired infection in
the Netherlands. There is little evidence in regard to differences in the efficacy of pre …

Abstract Background and Objective Chlorhexidine (CH) and povidone-iodine (PI) are the
most commonly used preoperative skin antiseptics at present. However, the prevention of …

Background: Despite many advances in surgical asepsis, surgical site infection (SSI)
remains a challenging and costly problem. Decontamination of the skin with an antiseptic …

Importance Preoperative skin antisepsis is an established procedure to prevent surgical site
infections (SSIs). The choice of antiseptic agent, povidone iodine or chlorhexidine …

Importance Effective preoperative antisepsis is recognized to prevent surgical site infection
(SSI), although the definitive method is unclear. Many have compared chlorhexidine (CHG) …

Objective: To compare SSI rates between the skin preparation agents: PI-Aq, povidone-
iodine with alcohol (PI-Alc), and chlorhexidine with alcohol (C-Alc). Background: Guidelines …

Objective. To compare use of chlorhexidine with use of iodine for preoperative skin
antisepsis with respect to effectiveness in preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) and cost …