The good news is that nurses rarely actually spend as long as that paper suggests for alcohol surface prep. The bad news is that it’s short enough to further call the effectiveness into question. At least they aren’t using iodine for it any more; I never saw a nurse wait the full 2 minutes that calls for. I don’t have the references at hand, but I wonder if chlorhexidine has a fast enough disinfection time to be practical; I know it is at most the same time-frame as alcohol, maybe shorter.
The good news is that nurses rarely actually spend as long as that paper suggests for alcohol surface prep. The bad news is that it’s short enough to further call the effectiveness into question. At least they aren’t using iodine for it any more; I never saw a nurse wait the full 2 minutes that calls for. I don’t have the references at hand, but I wonder if chlorhexidine has a fast enough disinfection time to be practical; I know it is at most the same time-frame as alcohol, maybe shorter.