Vital Signs: Prevention: A Better Use for Cotton Swabs Than Ear Cleaning

Friday, July 1, 2011 - 17:20 in Health & Medicine

Patients in a study whose surgical wounds were probed with a cotton swab daily had only one-sixth the number of infections experienced by patients in a comparison group.

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