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The effect of preheated versus room-temperature skin disinfection on bacterial colonization during pacemaker device implantation: a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial

Overview of attention for article published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, November 2015
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Title
The effect of preheated versus room-temperature skin disinfection on bacterial colonization during pacemaker device implantation: a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13756-015-0084-1
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Camilla Wistrand, Bo Söderquist, Anders Magnusson, Ulrica Nilsson

Abstract

In clinical practice, patients who are awake often comment that cold surgical skin disinfectant is unpleasant. This is not only a problem of patients' experience; heat loss during the disinfection process is a problem that can result in hypothermia. Evidence for the efficacy of preheated disinfection is scarce. We tested whether preheated skin disinfectant was non-inferior to room-temperature skin disinfectant on reducing bacterial colonization during pacemaker implantation. This randomized, controlled, non-inferiority trial included 220 patients allocated to skin disinfection with preheated (36 °C) or room-temperature (20 °C) chlorhexidine solution in 70 % ethanol. Cultures were obtained by swabbing at 4 time-points; 1) before skin disinfection (skin surface), 2) after skin disinfection (skin surface), 3) after the incision (subcutaneously in the wound), and 4) before suturing (subcutaneously in the wound). The absolute difference in growth between patients treated with preheated versus room-temperature skin disinfectant was zero (90 % CI -0.101 to 0.101; preheated: 30 of 105 [28.6 %] vs. room-temperature: 32 of 112 [28.6 %]). The pre-specified margin for statistical non-inferiority in the protocol was set at 10 % for the preheated disinfectant. There were no significant differences between groups regarding SSIs three month postoperatively, which occurred in 0.9 % (1 of 108) treated with preheated and 1.8 % (2 of 112) treated with room-temperature skin disinfectant. Preheated skin disinfection is non-inferior to room-temperature disinfection in bacterial reduction. We therefore suggest that preheated skin disinfection become routine in clean surgery. The study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCTO2260479).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 29 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Researcher 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Professor 2 7%
Other 8 27%
Unknown 11 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 30%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 7%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 14 47%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 February 2017.
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#1,933,407
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#223
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#28,884
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Outputs of similar age from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#12
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