Nettoyage des plaies. Connaissances et pratiques des infirmiers

Antiseptics continue to be used in situations in which they are no longer recommended (e.g. chronic wounds, operative wounds, super-infected wounds) whereas they are used very little for burns, where they are in fact recommended during the acute phase. This is true both with and without medical prescription. Prescriptions are not always followed in practice and prescriptions of antiseptics are more often respected than prescriptions of water or physiological saline solution. Discussion with the prescribing doctor is more frequent among hospital nurses than among private nurses.