Open AccessDoes Preadmission Cutaneous Chlorhexidine Preparation Reduce Surgical Site Infections After Total Knee Arthroplasty?
Author(s) -
Bhaveen H. Kapadia,
Peter L. Zhou,
Julio J. Jauregui,
Michael A. Mont
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999-016-4767-6
Subject(s) - medicine , chlorhexidine , periprosthetic , chlorhexidine gluconate , arthroplasty , infection control , total knee arthroplasty , protocol (science) , surgery , dentistry , pathology , alternative medicine
Many preventive methodologies seek to reduce the risk of surgical site infections after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), including the use of preoperative chlorhexidine baths and cloths. Although we have demonstrated in previous studies that this may be an efficacious method for infection prevention, our study was underpowered and we therefore set out to evaluate this with a larger sample size.