A Quality Improvement Study on the Relationship Between Intranasal Povidone-iodine and Anesthesia and the Nasal Microbiota of Surgery Patients

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2022 Dec 9

PMID 36490265

Authors

Eric N Hammond

Ashley E Kates

Nathan Putman-Buehler

Lauren Watson

Jared J Godfrey

Nicole Brys

Courtney Deblois

Andrew J Steinberger

Madison S Cox

Joseph H Skarlupka

Ambar Haleem

Michael L Bentz

Garret Suen

Nasia Safdar

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Abstract

Introduction: The composition of the nasal microbiota in surgical patients in the context of general anesthesia and nasal povidone-iodine decolonization is unknown. The purpose of this quality improvement study was to determine: (i) if general anesthesia is associated with changes in the nasal microbiota of surgery patients and (ii) if preoperative intranasal povidone-iodine decolonization is associated with changes in the nasal microbiota of surgery patients.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and fifty-one ambulatory patients presenting for surgery were enrolled in a quality improvement study by convenience sampling. Pre- and post-surgery nasal samples were collected from patients in the no intranasal decolonization group (control group, n = 54). Pre-decolonization nasal samples were collected from the preoperative intranasal povidone-iodine decolonization group (povidone-iodine group, n = 97). Intranasal povidone-iodine was administered immediately prior to surgery and continued for 20 minutes before patients proceeded for surgery. Post-nasal samples were then collected. General anesthesia was administered to both groups. DNA from the samples was extracted for 16S rRNA sequencing on an Illumina MiSeq.

Results: In the control group, there was no evidence of change in bacterial diversity between pre- and post-surgery samples. In the povidone-iodine group, nasal bacterial diversity was greater in post-surgery, relative to pre-surgery (Shannon's Diversity Index (P = 0.038), Chao's richness estimate (P = 0.02) and Inverse Simpson index (P = 0.027). Among all the genera, only the relative abundance of the genus Staphylococcus trended towards a decrease in patients after application (FDR adjusted P = 0.06). Abundant genera common to both povidone-iodine and control groups included Staphylococcus, Bradyrhizobium, Corynebacterium, Dolosigranulum, Lactobacillus, and Moraxella.

Conclusions: We found general anesthesia was not associated with changes in the nasal microbiota. Povidone-iodine treatment was associated with nasal microbial diversity and decreased abundance of Staphylococcus. Future studies should examine the nasal microbiota structure and function longitudinally in surgical patients receiving intranasal povidone-iodine.

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