Does an Antimicrobial Incision Drape Prevent Intraoperative Contamination? A Randomized Controlled Trial of 1187 Patients.

CONCLUSIONS: The use of an antimicrobial drape resulted in lower contamination risk than operating without an antimicrobial drape. Our findings suggest that antimicrobial drapes are useful in infection prevention, but further studies are needed to investigate the effect of antimicrobial drapes on infection.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level I, therapeutic study.
PMID: 32011378 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - January 29, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Hesselvig AB, Arpi M, Madsen F, Bjarnsholt T, Odgaard A, ICON Study Group Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research