A relevância dos procedimentos realizados em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva pelo cirurgião-dentista

Abstract

One of the areas of operation of Hospital Dentistry is carried out in Intensive Care Units (ICU), which aims to assist the most serious patients in the hospital, who are in an unstable health condition and unable to take care of themselves. In view of this, the present study aims to elucidate the role of the Dental Surgeon in a hospital environment and to highlight an area of Dentistry, highlighting the intervention of the dental team in the ICU, treating oral pathology and acting on pneumonia. mechanics. This is a literature review based on bibliographic searches in the Google Scholar, Pubmed, Medline and Scielo databases with the keywords oral hygiene (oral hygiene), ICU (ICU), hospital dentistry (hospital dentistry), pneumonia (pneumonia) and infections (infections). Since, Microorganisms in the oral cavity cause widespread changes, such as pneumonia and sepsis, which are complex diseases that cause serious damage to the body, so patients hospitalized in ICUs should receive oral health care in order to reduce the spread of these microorganisms and consequently improving the quality of life of the inpatient