Oral care in prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit protocol proposal

Considered the main cause of complications in hospital environments, infections are still a serious public health problem due to the high rates of morbidity, mortality and the increase in cost of hospitalization. The ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is among the most common infections in intensive care units (ICU), being the inhalation of the contents in the oropharynx one of its possible etiologies.
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