Toothbrushing Can Prevent Hospital-borne Pneumonia
Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 18:21
in Health & Medicine
Toothbrushing can prevent hospital-borne pneumonia. Hospital-borne infections are a serious risk of a long-term hospital stay, and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a lung infection that develops in about 15% of all people who are ventilated, is among the most dangerous.