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01-03-2021 | Antibiotic | LESS IS MORE IN INTENSIVE CARE

Less daily oral hygiene is more in the ICU: no

Authors: Bastiaan H. Wittekamp, Nienke L. Plantinga

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 3/2021

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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 [1‐3]. …

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Title: Less daily oral hygiene is more in the ICU: no
Authors: Bastiaan H. Wittekamp
Nienke L. Plantinga
Publication date: 01-03-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Antibiotic
Care
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 3/2021
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-021-06359-5

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