Is it necessary to shave the pubic and genital regions of patients undergoing endoscopic urological surgery?

Category Primary study
JournalInfection control and hospital epidemiology
Year 2004
To determine whether postoperative urinary infections were related to shaving before undergoing endoscopic urological surgery, 90 patients were randomly assigned to shaving or not shaving. Urinary cultures revealed infection in 10 patients. Half of them had been shaved, suggesting that this practice does not affect the incidence of urinary infections.
Epistemonikos ID: 88ab547db13c6c92aea20a656969eb1eca5b57ec
First added on: May 13, 2022