A Randomized Trial Comparing Skin Antiseptic Agents at Cesarean Delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preoperative skin antisepsis has the potential to decrease the risk of surgical-site infection. However, evidence is limited to guide the choice of antiseptic agent at cesarean delivery, which is the most common major surgical procedure among women in the United States.

Methods

In this single-center, randomized, controlled trial, we evaluated whether the use of chlorhexidine-alcohol for preoperative skin antisepsis was superior to the use of iodine-alcohol for the prevention of surgical-site infection after cesarean delivery. We randomly assigned patients undergoing cesarean delivery to skin preparation with either chlorhexidine-alcohol or iodine-alcohol. The primary outcome was superficial or deep surgical-site infection within 30 days after cesarean delivery, on

SUBMITTER: Tuuli MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4777327 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature