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- Title
Pre-Operative Depilatory Cream Hair Removal to Reduce Surgical Site Infection in Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery.
- Authors
Al-Khazalleh, Bayan; Al-Bashtawy, Mohamed; Qaddumi, Jamal; Albashtawy, Sa'd; Baqir, Mohammed; AlBashtawy, Zaid; Alkhawaldeh, Abdullah
- Abstract
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a significant cause of morbidity, mortality, and increased hospital stay time and costs after the operation. This paper aimed to review studies that explored the potential effectiveness of using depilatory cream to decrease the occurrence rate of surgical site infections as early preparation of cleaning area of the postoperative wound incision. An electronic search was carried out using PubMed and Google Scholar data bases. This review showed that there is a little amount of evidence on the effectiveness of using chemical hair removal with patients undergoing elective surgeries to decrease the risk of surgical site infections. Depilation before surgery has been used as a procedure to prevent hair from interacting with the recovering wound area. For preoperative surgical site hair removal, shaving, clipping, and chemical depilation are performed in hospitals. Chemical depilation requires adding a hair removal cream to the skin to remove the hair, and when this approach is used for hair removal, it is suggested that injuries and subsequent wound infection will be less. It is highly recommended that further studies need to be conducted to deeply investigate this area of interest.
- Subjects
PREOPERATIVE care; ELECTIVE surgery; ONLINE information services; META-analysis; SKIN; SYSTEMATIC reviews; SURGERY; PATIENTS; HAIR removal; SURGICAL site infections; MEDLINE
- Publication
Medico-Legal Update, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 3, p177
- ISSN
0971-720X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37506/mlu.v21i3.2981