title: Oral care in the intensive care unit: a review.
abstract: Oral care for patients in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is important, but this is usually the responsibility of nurses without sufficient knowledge in oral care or comprehensive protocols to follow. The problems of maintaining oral care with oral intubation, performing oral assessment, guidelines for oral hygiene care, frequency of oral care needed, and suggested mouth care protocol followed by recommendations are presented and discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Dental Health Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. aelhejazi@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Randa F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Abidia
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003729:Dental Care; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007440:Intubation; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009910:Oral Hygiene / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data