Episode 3.10 ACOG ACM, Advertisers, and Abortion

In this episode we discuss some hits and misses at the ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting, including the Prevena incision management system, as well as other products and how they are marketed to Ob/Gyns. Plus, we discuss the implications for practice of a total abortion ban. 

Links Discussed:

Hand-rubbing with an aqueous alcoholic solution vs traditional surgical hand-scrubbing and 30-day surgical site infection rates: a randomized equivalence study

Surgical hand antisepsis to reduce surgical site infection

ExEm® Foam

Use of Closed-Incision Negative-Pressure Therapy in Obstetrics

Effect of Prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Wound Dressing on Surgical-Site Infection in Obese Women After Cesarean Delivery

Meta‐analysis of negative‐pressure wound therapy for closed surgical incisions

How effective are diaphragms?

Abortion rates go down when countries make it legal: report