With the increased costs of medical care, there is a constant drive to control and improve spending across all fields of medicine. In particular, exploration into decreasing operating room costs and improving efficiency has become of significant importance. One aspect of improving efficiency in the operating room (OR) is patient preparation. One aspect, pre-operative skin preparation, is a vital part of patient care as it impacts surgical site infection rate, thus morbidity and mortality, length of stay in the hospital, health care costs and readmission rates. A device that can reduce surgical site infection rates, reduce OR time, and increase patient safety would be highly beneficial to investigate. A novel device, ULTRAPREP (Prep Tech, LLC; Lake Charles, LA), is a sterile, medical-grade plastic bag that is applied to the upper or lower extremity in the pre-operative holding area and allows the nurse to complete the disinfection process prior to entering the OR.

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