ReviewInternational wound journal2011
Antimicrobial sutures and prevention of surgical site infection: assessment of the safety of the antiseptic triclosan.
Review in International wound journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Triclosan-Containing Sutures for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis comparing surgical site infection in abdominal surgery between triclosan-coated and uncoated sutures.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2024Pooled it
- The Efficacy of Antimicrobial-Coated Sutures for Preventing Incisional Surgical Site Infections in Digestive Surgery: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2018Pooled it
- Triclosan-coated sutures and surgical site infection in abdominal surgery: the TRISTAN review, meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2017Pooled it
- The role of antimicrobial sutures in preventing surgical site infection.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2017Pooled it
- Antimicrobial-coated sutures to decrease surgical site infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2017Pooled it
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- Dual-Action Sutures: Chlorhexidine and Dexamethasone for Infection Control and Inflammation Suppression.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Perioperative infection prevention during inflatable penile prosthesis surgery: a narrative review.Translational andrology and urology · 2024Review
- Human breast milk isolated lactic acid bacteria: antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activity on theFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
- Prevention of Surgical Site Infections in Neonates and Children: Non-Pharmacological Measures of Prevention.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- How Long Do Implanted Triclosan Sutures InhibitPharmaceutics · 2022Article
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- In vitro evaluation of novel antimicrobial coatings for surgical sutures using octenidine.BMC microbiology · 2015Article
- Novel high efficient coatings for anti-microbial surgical sutures using chlorhexidine in fatty acid slow-release carrier systems.PloS one · 2014Article
- Review of indicators for cross-sectoral optimization of nosocomial infection prophylaxis - a perspective from structurally- and process-oriented hygiene.GMS Krankenhaushygiene interdisziplinar · 2012Article
- Topical antiseptics in wound care: time for reflection.International wound journal · 2011Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This article is based on a second Hygienist Panel meeting held in London on 16-17 June 2010. The Panel discussed the current use of antimicrobials and care bundles in the prevention of surgical site infection; the need to comply with good antibiotic stewardship, to reduce the risk of antibiotic-resistant and emergent organisms; and the need to revisit the use of antiseptics. The discussion was driven by concerns of the use of triclosan, which had been raised by a publication from the Scientific Committee on Consumer Products of the Directorate General for Health and Consumers, European Commission. Uncertainties that excessive use of triclosan for preservation and in cosmetics could select naturally resistant environmental organisms or induce reduced triclosan-susceptibility or antibiotic resistance were considered. It was concluded that the uses of triclosan with demonstrable health benefits, as in some medical applications (such as antimicrobial sutures), need to be distinguished from those where there is no proven benefit, such as its use in certain consumer products. The addition of triclosan to a product must be substantiated in any claim of preventive or therapeutic health benefit. Triclosan is the most widely studied biocide and this same level of information should be available for other topically used antimicrobials, which are widely used in surgical practice and chronic wound care.
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