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Is It Necessary to Shave the Pubic and Genital Regions of Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Urological Surgery?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Violeta Menéndez ,
Juan Antonio Galán ,
Matilde Elia ,
Argimiro Collado ,
Francisco Lioréns ,
Carlos Fernández  and
Francisco Garciá-López
Violeta Menéndez*
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Elche, Spain
Juan Antonio Galán
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Elche, Spain
Matilde Elia
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Hospital General Universitario de Elche, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain
Argimiro Collado
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Elche, Spain
Francisco Lioréns
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Elche, Spain
Carlos Fernández
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Elche, Spain
Francisco Garciá-López
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Elche, Spain
*
Cami de I'Almazara, 11, 03203 Elche (Alicante), Spain
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Abstract

To determine whether postoperative urinary infections were related to shaving before undergoing endoscopic urological surgery, 90 patients were randomly assigned to shaving or not shaving. Urinary cultures revealed infection in 10 patients. Half of them had been shaved, suggesting that this practice does not affect the incidence of urinary infections.

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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , June 2004 , pp. 519 - 521
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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