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Photodynamic therapy improves skin antisepsis as a prevention strategy in arthroplasty procedures: A pilot study [PDF]

open access: yesPhotodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, 2020
Background: Current standard skin antisepsis to prevent surgical site infections are ineffective to eradicate all skin-colonizing bacteria. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has shown bactericidal effects in vitro, but no clinical study with improvements in ...
Tobias Schmid   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

National Survey of Hand Antisepsis Practices [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Perioperative Practice, 2007
The findings from this study led to the development of a Trust-wide hand antisepsis protocol at Derby Hospitals NHS Acute Trust. The article, showing widespread usage of surgical scrubbing brushes, was also used to secure funding from the Association of ...
Judith Tanner, Apostolos Fakis
exaly   +2 more sources

Antisepsis

2006
All dialysis treatments include a certain risk of infection because of the decreased immune defenses of the patients and because of dialytic techniques that increase the potential of microbial contamination. Peritoneal dialysis, and in particular continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), has a higher risk of infections of the peritoneum, but ...
Paolo, Bianchi   +2 more
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Intestinal antisepsis

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 1965
The role of antibiotics in large bowel surgery was established by experimental studies indicating that antibiotics could protect a colonic anastomosis subjected to unusual stress. A number of different agents were studied to patients to determine which ones significantly altered the bacterial flora of the colon. Clinical studies were conducted with the
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