Pre surgical hand preparation: moving from tradition

Historically, surgical hand antisepsis has been carried out using either chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) or povidone iodine (PI) alongside water and a scrubbing brush (Figures 1,2 and 3). Many studies...

Preventing surgical site infections: equine surgical site preparation

VNs should groom their patients preoperatively to reduce contamination, to reduce excess hair, skin scales and external parasites and subsequently reduce the degree of contamination in theatre and...