• Southern medical journal · Jul 1982

    Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial

    Preoperative hair removal: a random prospective study of shaving versus clipping.

    • E R Balthazar, J D Colt, and R L Nichols.
    • South. Med. J. 1982 Jul 1;75(7):799-801.

    AbstractWe report the results of a random, prospective study of electrical clipping versus routine razor shaving in the removal of hair immediately before operation. Two hundred patients having elective inguinal herniorrhaphy according to strict protocol were included in this study. Unsatisfactory skin preparation, as evidenced by gross cuts made in the skin during hair removal, was noted in 7% of those shaved and 4% of those clipped. Two subcutaneous wound infections occurred in the shaved group (2%) and one in the clipped group (1%). This study indicates that preoperative clipping of hair with electric barber's clippers immediately before operation is a safe, well tolerated procedure that does not increase the risk of postoperative wound infection.

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