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5. What's the current thinking
in methods of prep application?
Before you begin,
says Ms. Pettis, make
sure the patient's skin
is clean, with no
residual cosmetics or
lotions. Remove all
body jewelry. Use the
no-touch technique to
apply the prep, starting at the incision site
and moving outward
─ in concentric circles with P-I solutions
or in a back-and-forth
motion with a prep
STERILE SPONGE? Use of sterile versus nonsterile
products in prep application, such as sponges for
povidone-iodine, remains an unresolved issue.
containing CHG.
Whichever applicator type you're using, it should be discarded after
use in a "highly contaminated area," such as the groin, feet, axilla or
rectum, "regardless of whether there's still solution remaining," she
says.
The use of sterile versus nonsterile products (such as a sponge for PI) in prepping remains an unresolved issue per the CDC guidelines.
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