Findings

What do systematic reviews say?

1 questions · 1 findings · 1 reviews

No studies found 0 · 0%GRADE not reported 0 · 0%Very low 0 · 0%Low 1 · 100%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%

Surgical site infection · participants undergoing clean, clean‐contaminated, contaminated or dirty surgical procedures

Irrigation with antibacterial solution may leads to lower SSI compared with irrigation with non‐antibacterial solution (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Intracavity lavage and wound irrigation for prevention of surgical site infection 2017 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
RR 0.57 [0.44, 0.75]
30 studies · 5141 participants
Low