Dental team visit daily inpatients in 115 beds of Central Institute to identify and remove outbreaks of oral infection in patients.
a little more than six months, patients in Icu of 115 beds of nine Central Institute of the Hospital das ClÃnicas are visited daily by dentists who aim to identify and address potential sources of infection in the mouth of the
patients.
the mouth is one of the ports of entry for respiratory infections, mainly. If you are not clean, facilitates the proliferation of bacteria. If not treated, they can compromise the patient’s clinical picture, especially of tubed and delay the process of high
.
Before, the dental service in ICU was triggered only under medical demand. In addition, already was part of routine dental treatment of elective patients – before the scheduled surgery to prevent infections. –
Now, a hygiene Protocol was created: the nurses make teeth cleaning – which includes scraping and brushing the tongue – and dentists seek sources of infection
.
If a patient is with plaque, for example, the team makes the scraping and hygiene at the time. If the tooth is ignited at the point of degrading treatment, it is extracted – two weeks ago the tooth of a patient with tetanus was extracted because it could be the gateway of
infection.
hospital dentistry’s goal is to treat acute outbreaks and opportunistic, as pus in the gums, plaque, periodontitis. We will not restore caries, because it is chronic infection, acute not ”, says Maria Paula Siqueira de Melo Peres, Director of the Division of hospital Dentistry.
and it’s not just in ICU of HC that dentists are present on a daily basis. For eight years the service was implemented in the Santa Casa de Barretos by Teresa Márcia Morais, Chair of the Department of Dentistry of Brazilian Medicine Association (Amib).
we see fewer cases of infection, less use of medicines and high faster. Is an economy and not cost more. ” Tereza account that one of the most striking was that of a patient hospitalized had 37 days because of an infection in his heart. The case has not improved and the patient went to ICU. Dentists have concluded that the focus of infection was the mouth. He had a severe periodontal disease. We removed the foci and draw two teeth. He stayed a week in ICU and today is well. “
