Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness of Chlorhexidine Showers Before Elective Plastic Surgical Procedures
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2009-01-01
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Veiga, Daniela Francescato 
Veiga-Filho, Joel
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This randomized controlled trial was designed to assess the effect of preoperative chlorhexidine showers on skin colonization and postoperative infection rates associated with plastic surgical procedures involving the trunk. Chlorhexidine showers were effective in reducing skin colonization with coagulase-negative staphylococci and yeasts, but there was no difference in postoperative infection rates.
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Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Chicago: Univ Chicago Press, v. 30, n. 1, p. 77-79, 2009.