Walaa Elamir Mohamed

The effect of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine on the incidence of ventilator associated neonatal pneumonia / تأثير إزالة التلوث الجرثومى من الفم باستخدام مادة الكلورهيكسيدين على نسبة حدوث الالتهاب الرئوى المصاحب لاستخدام جهاز التنفس الصناعى فى الاطفال حديثى الولادة Walaa Elamir Mohamed ; Supervised Mohamed Elsayed Hashem , Hanna Mohamed Aboulghar , Rasha Mohamed Gamal Eldin - Cairo : Walaa Elamir Mohamed , 2013 - 94P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine on the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia of mechanically ventilated neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Elmounira Children's Hospital - Cairo University and to correlate such outcome with gestational , birth weight , indications and durations of mechanical ventilation



Chlorhexidine (CHX) Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP)