Clinical review: Airway hygiene in the intensive care unit

摘要: Maintenance of airway secretion clearance, or hygiene, is important for the preservation patency and prevention respiratory tract infection. Impaired clearance often prompts admission to intensive care unit (ICU) can be a cause and/or contributor acute failure. Physical methods augment are used in ICU but few substantiated by clinical data. This review focuses on impact oral tracheal suctioning, bronchoscopy, mucus-controlling agents, kinetic therapy incidence hospital-acquired infections, length stay hospital ICU, mortality critically ill patients. Available data distilled into recommendations maintenance hygiene