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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

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Archive > August, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 8

How Would You Prep This Patient?

Test your knowledge about hair removal, prep selection and pre-op showering in our eight-question quiz.

Loretta Fauerbach, MS, CIC

In surgical skin prepping, as in most infection control disciplines, the sacred cows - such as shaving in spite of recommendations to the contrary, or the belief that povidone-iodine is always best - roam freely. The result is great variance in techniques, as you'll see in the answers to a survey of Outpatient Surgery readers' prepping practices. In fact, dominant practices often differ from recommended best practices. Read on to take our eight-question quiz, to view the survey results (we asked 33 readers to take this quiz last month) and to see my recommendations.

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