Technicare Alert--now what??

Specialties Operating Room

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Now that the FDA has released that Technicare is pulled what are other facilities doing with patients who need a prep on the mucous membranes and has a betadine allergy???

Please advise!

Specializes in 2 years school nurse, 15 in the OR!.

We pulled ours off the shelf today.

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Specializes in Operating room..

So does anyone have a name of another product yet? I would really appreciate some ideas!

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

We just started using castille soap- no germacidal properties, but it's the only replacement we were able to find. Hopefully Techni-Care will be back soon. Apparently there's nothing wrong with the actual product, it's a process that doesn't conform to FDA standards or something, so maybe it'll get resolved in the near future.

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Specializes in Bunches.

We pulled TC out of all our OR rooms yesterday. We've been instructed to use a 50/50 mix of 4.0% chlorahexidine and sterile water for burns and mucous membranes. For everything else that we used TC on we switched to ChloraPrep applicators (which is chlorahexidine and alcohol).

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