Evidence and insights

3 min

The microbiome's role in infection susceptibility

The human body is home to trillions of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites. Because infection control is directly linked to the body’s microbial environment, recognizing the microbiome’s influence on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), like surgical site infections (SSIs), can help you better understand and utilize strategies, such as using 4% CHG antiseptic skin cleansers, like HibiClens®, to support infection prevention and help reduce complications.

Webinar|3 min

Addressing Skin Tone Bias in Wound Care

Learn practical strategies to improve wound assessment across all skin tones, reduce bias, support early detection, and deliver more equitable patient care.

11 min

Common beliefs about CHG

There are a lot of opinions about the best way to bathe a patient. Let’s dive into the facts.

1 min

Skin integrity & decolonization: Preventative strategies across all patient populations

Patients’ skin is one of the most overlooked sources of preventable infections. While nurses and infection prevention work tirelessly to reduce healthcare-associated infections and surgical site infections, evidence continues to show that most pathogens stem from a patient’s own microbiome, not the hospital environment.1 As more infections occur outside the ICU, whole-hospital skin integrity and decolonization strategies that incorporate CHG antiseptic skin cleansers are emerging as the most effective practices to reduce HAIs and SSIs across diverse patient populations.

• Antiseptics
• Surgical solutions

4 min

How staff variability impacts infection control outcomes

Podcast|2 min

Culture of OR safety: Double gloving for effective hand protection

Improving surgical gloving practice

• Surgical gloves

Podcast|1 min

OR sustainability: A holistic system understanding

How do surgical gloves affect sustainability and the global environment?

• Surgical solutions
• Sustainable healthcare

Podcast|1 min

Creating a Consensus document for surgical gloving best practice - Part 2

Part two discusses the role of a Consensus work to overcome the challenges of implementing change.

• Surgical gloves

Podcast|1 min

Creating a consensus document for surgical gloving best practice – Part 1

The first part discusses the need to create a consensus document with recommendations for surgical gloving best practice.

• Surgical gloves

Article|5 min

Rethinking surgical incision care

Undisturbed wound healing in post-surgical settings is a key focus for rethinking surgical incision care. Undisturbed wound healing is a principle that reduces patient mortality, improves recovery time, increases patients’ quality of life and reduces costs¹.

• Incision care

Podcast|2 min

The role of chemicals in medical gloves

Challenges and opportunities with chemicals in surgical gloves - meeting customer expectations

• Surgical gloves

Article|1 min

Balancing practice and theory in the operating room

Swedish operating room (OR) nurse's preventive interventions to reduce bacterial growth and SSIs, and to increase comfort in patients undergoing surgery

• Surgical gloves

Article|2 min

Cochrane reviews on double-gloving

The efficacy of double-gloving to reduce the risk of an inner-glove perforation and increase the detection of perforations when they occurred has been evaluated in two different Cochrane systematic reviews^{1, 2}.

• Surgical gloves

Article|2 min

Contact dermatitis

Contact dermatitis is an inflammation of the skin resulting from direct contact of a substance with the surface of the skin.¹

• Surgical gloves

Article|4 min

Double gloving for complete protection

In discussion with surgeons and other operating room (OR) staff, such as surgical nurses, safety for their patients and for themselves is a key concern.

• Surgical gloves

Article|2 min

Double gloving with puncture indication for extra safety

The key to maximum safety is making sure that punctures in surgical gloves can be detected as rapidly as possible.

• Surgical gloves

5 min

How to fight infections

The key to fighting infection has been found to be intensive infection control and surveillance routines¹ coupled with the use of the right solutions.

• Surgical solutions

Article|8 min

Infections in the operating room

See how protecting yourself, your patients and staff from hospital-acquired infections, also known as healthcare-associated infections, can save on costs and avoid unnecessary additional care when complications occur.

• Infection prevention
• Surgical solutions

Article|5 min

Post-operative wound dressings and undisturbed wound healing

Successful surgical outcomes depend on appropriate post-operative care, undisturbed wound healing and correct choice of a post-op dressing. Surgical care does not end when the surgery ends. What can your post-operative dressing and dressing protocol do to help optimize healing?

• Incision care

Podcast|2 min

Protocol to practice: Single to double gloving

How to implement a double gloving protocol in practice

• Surgical gloves

Article|4 min

Safetac®: the innovation that changed wound care forever

With the invention of Safetac, Mölnlycke revolutionized wound care, introducing a range of groundbreaking dressings specifically designed to minimize pain at dressing change. Discover how Safetac technology can benefit you and your patients.

• Incision care