Oral Care Interventions and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Children

This experimental study aims to verify the influence of the oral hygiene performance with chlorhexidine digluconate 0.12% in the development of VAP in children. The data collection begun in April, 2005 during the performance of the masters degree course dissertation entitled "Clinical study about the effect of the oral hygiene with chlorhexidine digluconate 0.12% in the oropharynx colonization of children in intensive care", being performed in a PICU of nine beds in a university hospital in the city of São Paulo, after approval of the Research Ethics Committee of the institution. The study is composed by three types of variables: Independent variable, dependent variables, and complementary variables. The categorical variables will be analyzed in accordance with the Person's Chi-Square test of or Fisher's exact test. The numerics will be submitted to the analysis of variance ANOVA or Kruskall Wallis. For variables with heterogeneous distribution between the groups, the multivariate analysis will be applied to the evaluation of the influence in the determination of the development risk of the dependent variable. The rejection level will be fixed in 0.05 of the nullity hypothesis.