San Antonio—Bathing ICU patients every other day with a 2% chlorhexidine gluconate solution did not prevent hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) any better than soap and water, according to a study presented at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (abstract 686).
The researchers, admitting they were surprised by the results, said their findings were inconclusive because there was not enough evidence to support whether there