woven v non woven

RE: woven v non woven

Sal the 1st — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:36:40 GMT

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[quote user="Sal the 1st"]I know you have to move with the times but hell this is turning into a merry go round and I'm getting dizzy and want to get off.[/quote]

I think the grown up answer is clinical audit. Answer the question "is what we're doing actually working"?

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not encountered any problems, had no complaints - I like grown up answers

RE: woven v non woven

apache — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:29:15 GMT

[quote user="Sal the 1st"]I know you have to move with the times but hell this is turning into a merry go round and I'm getting dizzy and want to get off.[/quote]

I think the grown up answer is clinical audit. Answer the question "is what we're doing actually working"?

I'm happy with cotton wool and Hibiscrub made up so it's light pink (no idea of the concentration but nowhere near 50%). We even finish with a spray of spirit. If someone does a good quality large scale piece of research showing a better way then I'll listen and change. If we see a run of post op infections then I'll change. Until then I'm going to ignore many of the so called experts with little evidence other than anecdote (and often with a solution to sell me).

We swapped to Sterilium for vet hands and I was sceptical, but the evidence supports it. Works really well.

RE: woven v non woven

Sal the 1st — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:12:34 GMT

I used cotton wool until about 10 yrs ago - never had any problem with it and had been using it 20+ years. To be told - its old fashioned, dust particles and fibres ..... and all the rest so I used swabs, new practice I moved to used swabs so swabs there too. Then reading all the guff again its now swapped from woven to non woven - so I swap to non woven. And now listening to a student its not non woven I should be using but woven.

Does anybody else get fed up trying to keep up with this stuff? If there was a problem ie post op nastiness I could understand it but if you are not getting problems? I know you have to move with the times but hell this is turning into a merry go round and I'm getting dizzy and want to get off.

RE: woven v non woven

apache — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:28:10 GMT

We use cotton wool for skin prep. Thats all I ever saw as a student. May use woven swabs initially if very dirty (farm/shooting injury). I understood all you NEED was friction, so back and forth best.