Effectiveness of 0.12% chlorhexidine gluconate oral rinse in reducing prevalence of nosocomial pneumonia in patients undergoing heart surgery

American Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 567-570

  Houston, Susan ^a   Hougland, Paul ^a   Anderson, Jacqueline J ^a   LaRocco, Mark ^a   Kennedy, Virginia ^a   Gentry, Layne O ^a,b  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LISTERINE; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TERPENE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG COMBINATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH HYGIENE; OROPHARYNX; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHLORHEXIDINE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HUMANS; MOUTHWASHES; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SALICYLATES; SPUTUM; TERPENES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036834162     PISSN: 10623264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2002.11.6.567     Document Type: Article

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