• Ann Acad Med Singap · Oct 1985

    Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial

    Is preoperative shaving really necessary?

    • N Y Hoe and R Nambiar.
    • Ann Acad Med Singap. 1985 Oct 1;14(4):700-4.

    AbstractA randomised prospective study was done to assess the necessity of shaving before operation. Seven hundred and sixteen cases were included in this study. The traditional method of preoperative skin preparation which employs routine shaving and using cetrimide and chlorhexidine in alcohol for cleansing was compared with an alternate method without preoperative shaving. The clean wound infection rate was 5.08% for the traditional method group and 5.56% for the alternate method group. The results suggest that routine shaving, as part of preoperative preparation, has no advantage in reducing wound infection rate.

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