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The smallish community hospital where I used to work would open up a tub of 4x4s, pour a glob of Phisoderm onto it, pour prewarmed sterile water into the tub, and use the 4x4 and Phisoderm solution.
Where I work now (large teaching hospital), we don't do anything. If there has been a lot of stooling while pushing, the provider might request a perineal wash first, and then we just use warm tap water and a squirt of betadine put in an emesis basin.
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There was a similar post on this years ago, but after an exhaustive lit search, I'm coming to you guys. For the perineal prep immediately before SVD, what does your facility use? Betadine? Baby shampoo? Sterile water? Do you even do a prep? L&D nurses seem to agree that it's ridiculous, as the lady parts is far from sterile, and any sort of scrub must be rendered null and void by delivery. So what do you use? And do you know why you use it?