[A comparative study of the efficacy of antiseptics used for preventing infectious complications]. / Sravnitel'noe izuchenie éffektivnosti antiseptikov, primeniaemykh dlia profilaktiki infektsionnykh oslozhnenii.

ABSTRACT

The results of comparative study of antimicrobial properties of decamethoxine and chlorhexidine bigluconate are presented. It is established that resistant to antibiotics strains of pathogens of nosocomial infections were highly susceptible to decamethoxine. Decamethoxine and, to a lesser degree, chlorhexidine bigluconate have a bactericidal effect in treatment of hand skin of the medical staff of surgical department. The authors consider it expedient to use the mentioned preparations for prevention of nosocomial infection.