What is the pet name of the soap that surgeons use up to that time surgery?
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On their hands or on the patient? You're probably thinking of Betadine, a brand name for a povidone-iodine solution.
Surgical scrub are either 2% chlorhexidene gluconate or 7.5% povidone-iodine, although newer alcohol based hand disinfectants are becoming popular. Where I work, they do a regular scrub the first time, and for subsequent cases, travel with the alcohol solution.
Surgical skin preps used to be a povidone-iodine scrub followed by a povidone-iodine solution (painted on and allowed to dry). There is also an iodine based sticky gel. Occasionally, cholrhexidine is used.
Most of the surgeons I work with immediately use pre-packaged alcohol based prep sponges.
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