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Comparing rubbing and scrubbing surgical hand antisepsis with propan-1-ol 60% in accordance with European regulation UNE-EN 12791:2016+A1:2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2021

Carlos Martin-Villa Open the ORCID record for Carlos Martin-Villa [Opens in a new window] ,
Ricardo Becerro-de-Bengoa-Vallejo Open the ORCID record for Ricardo Becerro-de-Bengoa-Vallejo [Opens in a new window] ,
Luis Alou Open the ORCID record for Luis Alou [Opens in a new window] ,
Natalia González Open the ORCID record for Natalia González [Opens in a new window] ,
Marta Losa-Iglesias Open the ORCID record for Marta Losa-Iglesias [Opens in a new window] ,
María Luisa Gómez-Lus Open the ORCID record for María Luisa Gómez-Lus [Opens in a new window]  and
David Sevillano Open the ORCID record for David Sevillano [Opens in a new window]
Carlos Martin-Villa
Affiliation:
Facultad de Enfermería, Fisioterapia y Podología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ricardo Becerro-de-Bengoa-Vallejo
Affiliation:
Facultad de Enfermería, Fisioterapia y Podología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Luis Alou*
Affiliation:
Área de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Natalia González
Affiliation:
Área de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Marta Losa-Iglesias
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
María Luisa Gómez-Lus
Affiliation:
Área de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
David Sevillano
Affiliation:
Área de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
*
Author for correspondence: Luis Alou, E-mail: luisalou@ucm.es
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Abstract

A crossover trial was conducted to compare hand rub and hand scrub-brush methods for reducing bacterial loads when using propan-1-ol-60% according to European regulations. Both methods significantly reduced the bacterial load immediately after antisepsis, but only the hand rub method achieved significant bacterial load reduction 3 hours after the procedure.

Keywords

antisepsiscrossover trialsurgical site infection

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 42 , Issue 11 , November 2021 , pp. 1382 - 1384
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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