Valuation of a antisepsis method for surgical skin area in a heart surgery patient's group - with a product basead on POVIDONE IODINE, previous note

Abstract

Previous note of a comparative study between usual method of antisepsis of surgical skin area and a standard method making use of povidone iodine in groups of patients undergone Heart Surgery, in a determinate hospital of the city of São Paulo. This study demonstrated that in patients where it was used the standard method with povidone iodine in the antissepsis of the surgical skin area, the infection rate of the surgical incision was significantly smaller than in patients in which it was used the conventional methods of antisepsis