Oral care is a fundamental aspect of nursing and impacts the health, comfort, well-being patients over both short long term. Providing adequate oral for in intensive units (ICUs) particularly challenging, due part to problems caring very sick busy stressful environment, which may result having lower priority nurses than other aspects care. This review considers evidence supporting use ICU makes...

BACKGROUND The incidence of candidemia continues to rise in recent years. Candidemic patients often require care in an intensive care unit (ICU) and can consume substantial resources. However, there are no contemporary longitudinal population-level data on the incidence patterns of ICU utilization among patients with candidemia in the United States. METHODS The Texas Inpatient Public Use Data...

Nosocomial infections in an intensive care unit (ICU) are common and associated with a high mortality but there are no published data from the Oceania region. A retrospective study in Fiji's largest ICU (2011-12) reported that 114 of a total 663 adult ICU admissions had bacteriological culture-confirmed nosocomial infection. The commonest sites of infection were respiratory and bloodstream. Gra...