The Use of 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Impregnated Cloth Bathing in Preoperative Skin Preparation

The first TICHG should be used on the neck, chest and abdomen; The second TICHG should be used on the right upper limb, start at the shoulder; The third TICHG was intended for the upper left limb; The fourth TICHG should be used on the neck and chest; The fifth TICHG was for the right lower limb; The sixth TICHG should be used on the lower left limb.

2) Time of application: use six TICHGs the night before surgery and the six remaining on the morning of surgery.

3) After the hygiene of each member, discard the TICHG. After use of TICHG, allow the product to dry on the skin. Do not use bath towels to dry yourself and wear clean clothes.

In order to investigate the potential cases of SSI, the researcher personally followed the patients in the preoperative period, in the POI and at the time of hospital discharge, using a data collection instrument. In order to evaluate the occurrence of SSI after hospital discharge, the researcher used the following strategies: a review of the chart associated with patient follow-up during outpatient return when possible, which would occur on average on the 35th postoperative day; telephone contact from the 30th day until the 40th postoperative day (PO), using a post-discharge surveillance instrument. Continuous and discrete quantitative variables were evaluated using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test.

Qualitative (categorical) variables were evaluated using the Pearson X² test. The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test was used for qualitative (categorical) variables, whose distribution was different from normal.