This study aims to examine differences in the number of bacterial colonies after skin preparation using a combination 70% alcohol and 4% chlorhexidine gluconate with 10% povidone-iodine. used quasi-experimental method pre-post test design. The results showed decrease by 99.84% group gluconate, 99.77% povidone-iodine groups. While difference between two groups, there was no significant p-value 0...

conclusions due to the good tolerance of patients towards topical anesthesia, pouring a drop of povidone-iodine 10% seems to be a simple and acceptable method to reduce the growth of microorganisms of the conjunctiva. background postoperative endophthalmitis is one the most serious complications of cataract surgery. the majority of causative organisms in this destructive infection come from the...

The use of antiseptic agents to prevent blindness was not a self-evident development. It evolved over a number of years to the point that one antiseptic agent — povidone-iodine — is now used throughout the world, every day, to prevent blindness. The possible effect of iodine on the eye was first appreciated in 1951 when a reduction in ocular flora was reported following the application of iodin...

 Background: To determine the efficacy of different antiseptic solutions (Control group (I), Antibiotic solution (II), Chlorhexidine 0.4% (III), and povidone – iodine 10% (IV)) in sterilizing contaminated osteochondral plugs. Methods: Under sterile conditions, the femoral head and condyles of 20 rabbits were removed and cut into equal osteochondral pieces. A total of 200 osteochondral specimens...

INTRODUCTION Infection is a major threat to wound healing and a leading cause of graft loss in patients undergoing meshed skin grafts (MSGs). Therefore, topical antisepsis is important in the overall treatment scheme. METHODS An exploratory satellite group of 14 patients with infected MSGs were enrolled as part of a prospective, randomized, controlled, parallel-group, open-label, pilot Phase ...

The objective of the present study was to compare the ability of chlorhexidine and povidone-iodine to cause cessation of lactation in Staphylococcus aureus-infected mammary quarters, assess milk production in the treated quarter in the subsequent lactation, and evaluate whether microbiological cure was obtained. Fourteen mid- to late-lactation Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle from the Washington ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of anterior chamber contamination during phacoemulsification after applying 5% povidone-iodine prior to surgery. MATERIAL AND METHOD One hundred eyes from 100 patients having phacoemulsification cataract surgery by a single surgeon at Ramathibodi Hospital between October 2010 and March 2011 were included in the present study. Povidone-iodine 5% solution eye dro...