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Toothbrush Prevents Hospital-borne Pneumonia Monday, December 15, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Hospital-borne infections are a serious risk of a long-term hospital stay, and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a lung infection that develops in about 15% of all people who are ventilated. Thanks to a proven new clinical approach developed by Tel Aviv University nurses, though, there is a new tool for stopping the onset of VAP in hospitals. This new high-tech tool? An ordinary toothbrush. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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