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A three-minute preoperative scrub with hexachlorophene soap is a surgical fallacy and an ineffective practice.
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Challenges brief hexachlorophene scrubs; leaves open optimal preoperative antisepsis without higher-level trials.
FALLACY OF A CURRENT SURGICAL FAD — THE THREE-MINUTE PREOPERATIVE SCRUB WITH HEXACHLOROPHENE SOAP: PDF Only
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Philip B. Price (1951) studied this question. A three-minute preoperative scrub with hexachlorophene soap is a surgical fallacy and an ineffective practice.
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