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Archive > February, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 2

Evaluating Surgical Skin Preps

Here are some things you'll need to know about our One-Stop Guide.

Dianne Taylor, Contributing Editor

If you've tried to evaluate surgical skin preps, you know it's no easy task. The FDA's proposed efficacy standards have been in limbo for a decade, and product information can be hard to find. To help you better understand the properties of these preps, we gathered information from manufacturers and compiled our One-Stop Guide to Surgical Skin Preps. Before reading the pullout guide on the next page, here are some things you need to know:

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