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- Title
A Inserção da Odontologia em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva.
- Authors
dos Santos, Thainah Bruna; do Amaral, Marcos Antônio; Gavilanes Peralta, Nora; Sergio Almeida, Ricardo
- Abstract
Hospital Dentistry has been gaining importance in the scenery of multidisciplinary health team to maintain the patients' life quality patients. However, the dentist's role in hospitals presentssome deficiency, knowing that oral hygiene is essential to exclude diseases and maintain normalcy in the oral cavity. Patients in intensive care unit (ICU) often have low immunity, presenting as contributing factors hyposalivation, the use of antibiotics and the lack of oral hygiene. It important to highlight that the oral cavity is home to almost half of the microbiota of the human body and is considered an ideal microbial incubator due to its characteristics of temperature, moisture, pH, oxygen tension and presence of nutrients. For the present review, it was used the method searches in integrative review using databases Pubmed, Scopus, Web of Science, e SciELO. Used articles were selected according to the subject and criteria of dentistry applied to the Intensive Care Unit. The aim of this study is to analyze the importance of a dentistry team for the comprehensive care of ICU patients in reducing the spread of infection from the oral cavity. It was concluded that it is necessary a better recognition of Dentistry participation in multidisciplinary health team, being of fundamental importance for the prevention of infections in ICUs, especially pneumonia, helping reduce severe sepsis clinical signs. In the searches carried out PUBMED stands out because it is more comprehensive than the other databases, obtaining a total of 800 publications.
- Publication
Journal of Health Sciences (2447-8938), 2017, Vol 19, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
2447-8938
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17921/2447-8938.2017v19n2p83-88