Study Links Oral Bacteria and VAP

Every day in emergency rooms across America, hospital staff must insert plastic ventilation tubes into the airways of their sick or severely injured patients to keep them breathing. Unfortunately for those who have the tubes in place for 48 hours or longer, at least one in 10 will develop a bacterial infection in their lungs. In some cases, the resulting pneumonia will prove fatal. In others, the infection – known as ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP - will prolong the patient’s hospital stay from two weeks to a month on average, often resulting in extra hospital fees of $40,000 or more.

For complete article: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/Research/ResearchResults/ScienceBriefs/Archive/archive2008/December/VAP.htm

Researchers Find Joint Failures Potentially Linked To Oral Bacteria

The culprit behind a failed hip or knee replacements might be found in the mouth. DNA testing of bacteria from the fluid that lubricates hip and knee joints had bacteria with the same DNA as the plaque from patients with gum disease and in need of a joint replacement.

This study is one of many coming from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine that have linked oral bacteria to health problems when they escape from the mouth and enter the blood.

For full article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244295.php

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