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Infection Prevention
Test Your Pre-op Skin Prepping Knowledge
Daniel Johnson, RN

Have you ever stopped to observe the number of ways patients' skin is prepped for surgery in your facility? With dozens of prepping solution options, as many techniques as there are staff performing preps, and inconsistencies in body hair removal and pre-operative antiseptic showering, the permutations are seemingly endless. That wouldn't be too much of a concern if prepping were simply a matter of rubbing some solution on a patient and giving the surgeon a thumbs up for the incision.

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