The purpose of this PI project was to (a) define oral care policies at ... The CNS counted ventilator days by maintaining a running total on the Excel audit sheet. In addition, respiratory therapy ...

Oral care decreased both the number of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the length of stay, as well as the amount of time of mechanical ventilation. Patients on mechanical ventilation who ...

Oral care supplemented antiseptics, such as chlorhexidine or povidone-iodine, may reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia more than oral care without antiseptics, according to research ...

The TaperGuard Evac oral tracheal tube is intended ... between the groups in the incidence of ventilator‑associated pneumonia, time to onset of ventilator‑associated pneumonia, or length of intensive ...

Inadequate documentation by the nurses was attributed to reasons such as "lack of time," "too busy," or "I forgot." To obtain 2,000 ventilator days of full documentation, a total of 345 patients ...