Erschienen in:
08.02.2021 | LESS IS MORE IN INTENSIVE CARE
Less daily oral hygiene is more in the ICU: no
verfasst von:
Bastiaan H. Wittekamp, Nienke L. Plantinga
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2021
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Excerpt
Oral care in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a basic need, but oral care regimens vary, ranging from daily tooth brushing to applying antiseptics or antibiotics around the clock. While tooth brushing may be considered a standard procedure strategies with antiseptics or antibiotics have gained more ground in the past decades because of their beneficial effect on ICU-acquired infections and, for selective decontamination using antibiotics, also mortality [
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