WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Dr. Faez Ahmed Mahdi*, Dr. Ghassan Ghazi Faisal and Dr. Maysoon Ali Abdulkareem

ABSTRACT

Background: There is no established standard of oral care for the prevention of developing oral pathogens inpatients undergoing critical care, and the technique for delivering oral care and routine oral swabs is debatable.Aim of study: To test the changes in oral microflora in intensive care unit patients at admission and after 5 daysof admission. Patients & Methods: oral swaps were taken from 20 patients with other clinical data on the firstday and fifth day of intensive care unit admission. All these swabs were sent to the clinical laboratoryinvestigation, to determine whether there was a change in oral normal flora or not. Results: Of 20 patients, 20(100%) were diagnosed with oral bacterial contamination on the first day of intensive care unit admission, 10males and 10 females, age range 18-97 years old, with no statistical differences between the first and fifth ofadmission in the number of bacterial infections with p. value more than 0.05. Conclusions: Using distilled waterwith oral non-adherent sterile pads three times daily, demonstrated no significant decrease in oral bacterialcontamination five days following ICU admission.