Alexandre Franco Miranda
Brasília, DF
The Importance Of Oral Health as Integral Part Of The Care Given To Intensive Care Unit Patients
The Importance of Oral Health as Integral Part of the Care Given to Intensive Care Unit Patients
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Alexandre Franco Miranda.The Importance of Oral Health as Integral Part of the Care Given to Intensive Care Unit Patients. JOJ Nurse Health Care. 2017; 1(1): 555554.
Abstract
Oral health is an integral part of the human systemic condition. Thus, preventive programs aimed at eliminating dental infection outbreaks, inflammatory and painful processes resulting from other issues affecting hospitalized patients, mainly Intensive Care Unit patients, should be promptly implemented. Taking correct oral cavity hygiene actions help reducing dental biofilm and tongue coating accumulation, as well as the accumulation of gram-negative bacteria linked to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia and bacterial endocarditis.Educational and adaptive actions directed to nursing teams, nursing technicians and to all hospital staff should be implemented in order to provide better professional qualification, integral assistance to critically-ill patients, as well as to humanize and value actions focused on oral health promotion. The aim of the current study is to provide a brief professional opinion about the clinical, technical, scientific and educational activities associated with Hospital Dentistry in Brasília, Brazil.It is possible seeing the need ofhaving trained dental professionals and dental surgeons able to provide oral health care in a clinical, technical, scientific and educational way, as well as to deal with oral issues and their direct relation to systemic damages caused to patients hospitalized in Intensive Care Units.
Keywords: Dental service hospital; Intensive care units; Pneumonia;Ventilator associated; Oral health; Quality of life
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