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IF THEY LIKE, THEY'LL USE There is a correlation between hand hygiene compliance and the surgical scrub products that you use.
Hand-Healthy Hand Scrubs
The quest for products that protect your skin as well as they prevent infection.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
The perfect waterless surgical scrub? Yet to be invented, says Chantell Bartell, RN, BSN, the OR coordinator at the Tallahassee (Fla.) Outpatient Surgery Center. For if it existed, it would be odorless, it would dry in seconds, it wouldn't irritate the skin, and every surgeon and staff member would happily use it throughout the day without complaint or cracked cuticles.
"No, that doesn't exist," says Ms. Bartell. "Some of our doctors can use one scrub and some have to use an alternative scrub." That means the center is forced to stock 2 alcohol-based hand rubs — one that
