Reducing the Rate of Surgical Site Infections after Breast Surgery with the Use of Larger Volumes of 4% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution as Preoperative Antiseptic Showering

Jon Persichino; Hayley Lee; Made Sutjita; Karla Talavera; Glenn San-Agustin; Silvia Gnass

doi:10.1017/ice.2016.293

Reducing the Rate of Surgical Site Infections after Breast Surgery with the Use of Larger Volumes of 4% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution as Preoperative Antiseptic Showering

Jon Persichino
, Hayley Lee
, Made Sutjita
, Karla Talavera
, Glenn San-Agustin
, Silvia Gnass

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	373-375
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	38
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2016.293
State	Published - Mar 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Epidemiology
Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

Keywords

Anti-Infective Agents, Local/pharmacology
Chlorhexidine/analogs & derivatives
Humans
Middle Aged
Preoperative Care/methods
Adult
Female
Retrospective Studies
California
Mastectomy/adverse effects
Surgical Wound Infection/epidemiology

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Reducing the Rate of Surgical Site Infections after Breast Surgery with the Use of Larger Volumes of 4% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution as Preoperative Antiseptic Showering. / Persichino, Jon; Lee, Hayley; Sutjita, Made et al.
In: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 38, No. 3, 01.03.2017, p. 373-375.

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