Oral health, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and intracranial pressure in intubated patients in a neuroscience intensive care unit

American Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 368-376

  Prendergast, Virginia ^a,b   Hallberg, Ingalill Rahm ^b   Jahnke, Heidi ^c   Kleiman, Cindy ^d   Hagell, Peter ^b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Phoenix College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASES; ORAL HYGIENE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 70349580383     PISSN: 10623264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2009621     Document Type: Article

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