ArticleAntimicrobial resistance and infection control2018
Alcohol-based surgical hand preparation: translating scientific evidence into clinical practice.
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- Which Surgical Hand Preparation Method Is More Effective? A Comparative Study of Hand Rub and Hand Scrub.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
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- SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene: 2022 Update.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2023Article
- The Use of Waterless Alcohol-based Antiseptic for Surgical Skin Preparation in Rhesus Macaques (Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- Association Between Eliminating Water From Surgical Hand Antisepsis at a Large Ophthalmic Surgical Hospital and Cost.JAMA ophthalmology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Background: Although alcohol-based surgical hand preparation offers potential advantages over the traditional surgical scrubbing technique, implementing it may be challenging due to resistance of surgeons in changing their practice. We aimed to implement alcohol-based surgical hand preparation in the hospital setting evaluating the impact of that on the quality and duration of the procedure, as well as on the prevention of surgical site infections. Methods: A quasi-experimental study conducted at a tertiary-care university hospital from April 01 to November 01, 2017. Participants were cardiac and orthopedic surgical teams ( Results: We observed 534 surgical hand preparation events. Among 33 participants with full data available for both study periods, we observed full compliance with all the steps predicted in the WHO technique in 0.03% (1/33) of them in the pre-intervention period and in 36.36% (12/33) of them in the intervention period (OR:12.0, 95% CI: 2. 4-59.2, Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that, when compared to the traditional surgical scrub, alcohol-based surgical hand preparation improves the quality and reduces the duration of the preparation, being at least equally effective for the prevention of surgical site infections.
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