title: Studies of the surgical scrub.
abstract: A study comparing the relative efficacy of a five versus a ten minute surgical scrub was carried out using random sampling of personnel scrubbing for routine scheduled hospital surgical procedures. Scrubbing for five minutes was found to be equally as effective as scrubbing for ten minutes. Betadine was compared to pHisoHex as a scrubbing agent and found to be statistically more effective in degerming the skin following a five minute scrub. As a result of this study, a routine preoperative surgical scrub of five minutes' duration, using Betadine as the scrubbing agent, is recommended.
mesh_terms: D006225:Hand / Q000382:microbiology*; D006582:Hexachlorophene / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D011205:Povidone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D011206:Povidone-Iodine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D011206:Povidone-Iodine; D011205:Povidone; D006582:Hexachlorophene