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All skin antiseptics
are sterile, right?
(wrong)
Aplicare
®
The only sterile preoperative
skin preparation antiseptics.
To learn which Aplicare® skin antiseptics
are sterile and to receive FREE samples,
visit www.AplicareSterility.com.
*APIC Letter to FDA: Comments to FDA on Antiseptic Patient Preoperative
Skin Preparation Products. 2/6/13
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Many healthcare professionals
understandably assume that all antiseptics
are sterile. This is actually not true.
THE FACTS: The Association for Professionals
in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
has stated, "All skin preparation products should
be manufactured to be sterile."*
Aplicare® provides the only sterile preoperative
skin preparation antiseptics suitable for use in
the OR. Each product lot is sterilized to a 10-6
assurance level. While many other products have
sterile outer packaging, the antiseptic inside the
package — arguably the most important
component because it touches patients' skin —
is not sterilized.
THE APLICARE® DIFFERENCE: For product safety
and patient care, enhance your infection prevention
program with the only sterile skin antiseptics.
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