Should olanexidine be used routinely for surgical skin antisepsis?

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¹ Trauma & Orthopedic Surgery, Septic & Reconstructive Surgery, Research and Treatment Centre Septic Defect Wounds, Federal Armed Forces of Germany, Bundeswehr (Military) Academic Hospital Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: christianwilly@bundeswehr.org.
² Trauma & Orthopedic Surgery, Septic & Reconstructive Surgery, Research and Treatment Centre Septic Defect Wounds, Federal Armed Forces of Germany, Bundeswehr (Military) Academic Hospital Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.

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Christian Willy et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;20(11):1219-1220.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30281-4. Epub 2020 Jun 15.

¹ Trauma & Orthopedic Surgery, Septic & Reconstructive Surgery, Research and Treatment Centre Septic Defect Wounds, Federal Armed Forces of Germany, Bundeswehr (Military) Academic Hospital Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: christianwilly@bundeswehr.org.
² Trauma & Orthopedic Surgery, Septic & Reconstructive Surgery, Research and Treatment Centre Septic Defect Wounds, Federal Armed Forces of Germany, Bundeswehr (Military) Academic Hospital Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.

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Aqueous olanexidine versus aqueous povidone-iodine for surgical skin antisepsis on the incidence of surgical site infections after clean-contaminated surgery: a multicentre, prospective, blinded-endpoint, randomised controlled trial.
Obara H, Takeuchi M, Kawakubo H, Shinoda M, Okabayashi K, Hayashi K, Sekimoto Y, Maeda Y, Kondo T, Sato Y, Kitagawa Y. Obara H, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Nov;20(11):1281-1289. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30225-5. Epub 2020 Jun 15. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020. PMID: 32553191 Clinical Trial.