A importância do cirurgião dentista na unidade de terapia intensiva

Objective: Highlight the relevance of the Dental Surgeon (CD) in the Intensive Care Unit (UTI) focusing on the care of the oral cavity of these patients. Literature review: Patients who are in the UTI due to numerous complications and do not have a good hygiene of the oral cavity, have a greater potential to have a bad result in the evolution of their clinical condition. This event is most often increased by the percentage of breathing problems. It is found that the prevalence of failure in the evolutionary picture is higher in patients who do not have a certain hygiene in the oral cavity. Generally in most hospitals nursing professionals who do not have a thorough understanding or even protocols to guide do this cleaning, which establishes an indication of the importance of the CD in the interdisciplinary constitution, thus interfering with a better critical sense and foundation scientific. Final considerations: Nowadays the CD is seeking to qualify even more in the interventions of the rehabilitation processes in individuals who are in the UTI, seeking to reduce infectious foci in the oral cavity, performing various procedures, thus improving the patient's health and reducing the time hospitalization in the UTI.