Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Wound irrigation with an antiseptic solution was associated with reduced surgical site infections after all ...

Aug. 8 (UPI) --Researchers at James Cook University have found that a water-based antiseptic solution is as effective as an alcohol-based solution at preventing infection. Surgeons use antiseptic ...

Antiseptic solutions are routinely applied to clean the skin prior to surgery. They kill or prevent the growth of microorganisms and prevent wound infections. One of the most common antiseptic ...

The age-old practice of applying antiseptic to skin prior to surgery on closed fractures could soon shift after a study, published Feb. 1, in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that iodine in ...

A review has found that vaginal cleansing with a povidone-iodine solution before caesarean delivery reduces the risk for postoperative endometritis. The antiseptic solution was most beneficial for ...

Sept. 17 (UPI) --A commercially available nasal antiseptic solution "inactivates" COVID-19 just 15 seconds after the coronavirus is exposed to it, effectively preventing the infection from developing, ...

3M Company MMM arm 3M Health Care recently launched 3M SoluPrep S Sterile Antiseptic Solution. The product is a chlorhexidine gluconate (2% w/v) and isopropyl alcohol (70% v/v) Patient Preoperative ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 3M Health Care today announced the introduction of its new FDA-approved 3M™ SoluPrep™ S Sterile Antiseptic Solution chlorhexidine gluconate (2% w/v) and ...

In our never-ending attempt to vanquish healthcare-associated infections, the latest weapon to emerge is chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG). Not that CHG is exactly new: as an antiseptic, it has been ...

A large multicenter clinical trial found that an antiseptic containing iodine resulted in about one-quarter fewer post-surgical infections in patients with limb fractures compared to another ...