Abstract:

The aim of this study is to review the existing literature that assesses the effectiveness of oral care in the prevention of ventilator relationship pneumonia and systematically study the data obtained from the studies. The universe of the study was created by articles that were achieved by scanning the national and international databases of "Google Scholar", "Pubmed", "Cochrane", "Google Academic" between 2001 and 2017. In the review "Ventilator associated pneumonia (VIP), "Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention", "Ventilator associated pneumonia (VIP) and oral care", the keywords "Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention and oral care" have been selected articles that assess the impact of the VIP prevention protocols and applications on the results, the publication language is Turkish and English and has full text. These articles have formed a sample of a total of 20 research studies that meet the research criteria. Results: In the paper included, randomized controlled, prospective-randomized controlled, semi-experimental, pilot-randomized controlled, double blind-randomized plasebo controlled, double blind-prospective-randomized controlled, prospective, double blind-randomized controlled research designs were found. The clinical protocol and protective measures used in the prevention of ventilator-related pneumonia with this systematic aggregation have been found to be effective in the use of "chlorhexidine", "dried water", "chlorhexidine swab", "oral gel", "sodium bikarbonate", "listerine", "hydrogen peroxide" in oral care. The results of this systematic aggregation have shown that clinical protocols and preventive practices in the prevention of the VIP used in 9 of the studies have not affected the results of the VIP, and that the clinical protocols and preventive practices used in 11 have contributed positively to the results of the VIP.

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