Ventilated children in the PICU are dependent on the
health care team to tend to their everyday basic needs,
including oral hygiene. Only one study was identified to
evaluate the effect of oral hygiene with 0.12% chlorhexidine
gluconate on the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia
and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in children. In
this study the oral hygiene with antiseptic did not reduce
the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia and VAP in
children undergoing cardiac surgery (Ja´como et al., 2011