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Archive >  Surgical Supplies 2006

Understanding Surface Disinfectants

How to choose and use these solutions to ensure your OR is up to cleanliness standards.

Dan Mayworm, Contributing Editor

If you're adhering properly to AORN guidelines, your nurses are cleaning horizontal surfaces in the operative field between every case, every day. The group argues, quite rightly, that "although it is difficult to define the level of contamination necessary to increase surgical wound infection rates, a clean surgical environment will reduce the number of microbial flora present."1

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