Journal Title: تایستان 91 Article title: Evaluation of the effect of Brown Betadine Elimination in the Reduction of Wound infection Rate in Clean Surgeries
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Article abstract: Introduction & Objective: A patient's skin is a major source of pathogens that cause surgical site infection. There are various techniques for preoperative skin preparation in this regard. The present study tries to compare the results of pre-operation skin cleaning using povidone-iodine 10% with skin cleaning using povidone-idone 7.5% and green povidone-iodone.
Materials & Methods: A total of 200 patients with clean surgery were randomly assigned to two groups: case (modified technique of skin preparation with aqueous povidone - iodine 10%) and control (standard technique with povidone -iodine soap 7.5% and green povidone -iodine). Finally 111 patients in first group and Eighty-two patients in the second group completed the study period of 30- days. We compared surgical site infection and confounder variable between two groups such as age, immunity compromise, diabetes mellitus, obesity Body Mass Index, time of surgery and antibiotic consumption and analyzed the results by Chi-square test.
Results: There were no statistical difference between confounder variables in the two groups (P > 0.05) and infections incidence in the first group was 2 patients (1.8%) and in second group was 3 patients (3.6%). The P-value was 0.65.
Conclusions: Preparation of the skin with both povidone iodine soap and then aqueous povidone iodine prior to clean surgeries can be replaced with aqueous povidone iodine alone.
Article KeyWords: Brown Povidone-Iodine, Green Povidone-Iodine, Infection
