Effect of povidone-iodine and saline soa
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Richard L Lammers; Mark Fourrรฉ; Michael L Callaham; Tim Boone
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Article
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1990
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Elsevier Science
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English
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It is common practice to soak acute traumatic wounds in dilute povidoneiodine solution before definitive wound cleaning and debridement. The effectiveness of soaking wounds is unknown. Using quantitative wound bacterial counts as a measure of efficacy, we compared wounds soaked in 1% povidone-iodine