Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia by Use of Oral Chlorhexidine
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Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia by use of oral chlorhexidine.
To the Editor—We read with interest the article by Tantipong et al. on the use of oral decontamination with 2% chlorhexidine solution for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). We believe that their study has some important limitations and that the authors' conclusion that oral chlorhexidine is an effective and safe method for VAP prevention is not supported by the results. In...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1086/591742