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Assessment of Health Care Workers Compliance to the Guidelines of Disinfection and Sterilization
No full textChlorhexidine versus Povidone-Iodine for the prevention of Surgical Site Infections: A review.
Get PDFBackgroundSurgical Site Infections (SSIs) are the third most frequently reported health care-associated infection and it remain a major clinical problem despite improvements in prevention, as they are associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Prevention strategies for SSIs are based on reducing the risk of infection by bacteria, So many antiseptic agents are used, the most common one are Chlorhexidine and Povidone-Iodine.AimsTo discuss the findings of RCTs that compare Chlorhexidine versus Povidone-Iodine in the prevention of Surgical Site Infections (SSIs).Methods This systematic review was carried out, including PubMed, Google Scholar, and EBSCO that examining randomized trials of Chlorhexidine and Povidone-Iodine to summarize the major RCT that compare Chlorhexidine versus Povidone-Iodine in the prevention of Surgical Site Infections (SSIs).Results The review included six randomized studies that compare between Chlorhexidine and Povidone-Iodine for the prevention of SSIs. The findings showed that many studies prefer using Chlorhexidine over Povidine-Iodine to reduce SSIs, few studies prefer using PVI as antiseptic and other studies reported that there is no significant difference between both. ConclusionMajority of results prefer using Chlorhexidine than Povidone-Iodine as antiseptics but there were few findings prefer PVI and other studies reported that there was no significant difference between using them as antiseptics.
