Blog - "PDI Perspectives"

Putting the New AORN Guidelines into Practice with Profend® Nasal Decolonization Kit and Prevantics® Skin Products

Author: Holly Montejano, MS, CIC, CPHQ, VA-BC

July 6, 2021

In May 2021, AORN released the e-publication of their newly updated Guideline for Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis (with book publication...

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It Must Have Been the Noses: Evaluating the Evidence for Decolonization

Author: Marc-Oliver Wright, MT(ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC

March 16, 2021

Historical milestones In the summer of 1980, Bryan and colleagues at Richland Memorial Hospital and the University of South Carolina...

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Maintaining the Microbiome: The Art of Balancing Colonization & Infection

Author: Deva Rea, MPH, BSN, BS, RN, CIC

July 8, 2019

Conventionally, we only think about the microbes on our skin and bodies when we become sick with an infection. Yet...

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The Nose Knows: Addressing Surgical Site Infection Prevention & Antibiotic Stewardship Through Povidone-Iodine Antiseptic Nasal Decolonization

Author: Joan Hebden, RN, MS, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA

May 27, 2018

Decolonization is an evidence-based patient safety practice with the goal of lowering the microbial bio-burden on patient body sites to...

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