Effectiveness of Alcohol Swabs for Preventing Infections During Vaccination
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2018-12-01
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Summary
Alcohol is used to disinfect the skin prior to injections in order to prevent infections
caused by bacteria on the skin being injected within tissue. At present, however, clinical
trials do not demonstrate a clinical impact of using or not using alcohol swabs on infections
and infection symptoms calling into question the practice of using it prior to all
injections. These studies are methodologically flawed, and do not specifically examine
vaccine injections. The present study is being undertaken to provide some preliminary data
for the risk of infection and infection symptoms when alcohol swabs are not used to perform
vaccine injections.