ShoweringMany practitioners consider
showering to be part of hygiene maintenance
rather than an aspect of pin site care, and as a
result do not include it in pin site care protocols.
Gordon et al(2000) reported no major infections
as a result of showering in children with fixators.
There appears to be some consensus that
showering is acceptable once the pin site is dry
and no longer oozing (Lee-Smith et al 2001). The
NAON found that opinion was divided between
showering using bactericidal soap and drying
with a clean dry towel and covering the fixators
with plastic while showering (Holmes et al 2005)