Abstract:Purpose: No consensus is made for preoperative skin antisepsis for upper extremity surgery. We aimed to determine if the use of povidone-iodine only (single regimen) instead of povidone-iodine and alcohol-chlorhexidine (triple regimen) resulted in an increased rate of surgical site infection (SSI), and to detect any associated factors that increased the infection risk.Methods: A cross-sectional, retrospective review of medical records was made for patients who underwent upper extremity surgery from March 2020 … Show more
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