Preoperative bathing and cleansing are important to prevent surgical site infections. Preoperative bathing is considered good clinical practice to clean the body before surgery, reducing the number of bacteria on the skin, especially in the surgical area.

Surgical site infection (SI) is the most common type of infection after surgery. One of the measures to prevent SI is surgical hand hygiene. Bacteria on the surgeon's hands can enter the surgical wound if the glove is accidentally punctured without the surgeon's attention.