Skin care guidelines from AWOHN (please forgive me if I got that
abbreviation wrong) call for use of povidone iodine or CHG followed
by removal with sterile water after prepping to prevent absorption.
Lynn
At 5:58 PM -0500 11/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I have some feed back on the type of skin prep used in the
neonatal units before the insertion of a vascular access device?
Thank you,
Patricia Dobson, CRNI OCN
Enloe Medical Center
Chico, Ca.
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Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RNC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
http://www.hadawayassociates.com
office 770-358-7861