Research Article
The Effect of Perioperative Oral Function Management of Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy, Based on Blood Culture Tests
Yuudai Kondo, Keiichi Arimura, Yuri Tagawa, Tomohiro Tamura, Takeshi Kaneuji, Yuusaku Suehiro and Yoshihiro Yamashita
Correspondence Address :
Yuudai Kondo D.D.S., Ph.D.
Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Department of Medicine of Sensory and Motor Organs
Faculty of Medicine
University of Miyazaki
Japan
Tel: 81 9 8585 9385
Email: ykonn1218@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
Received on: April 28, 2017, Accepted on: May 16, 2017, Published on: May 23, 2017
Citation: Yuudai Kondo, Keiichi Arimura, Yuri Tagawa, et al. (2017). The Effect of Perioperative Oral Function Management of Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy, Based on Blood Culture Tests
Copyright: 2017 Yuudai Kondo, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
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Abstract
When undergoing chemotherapy, it is easy for patients to develop an intraoral disorder as an adverse event. If intraoral disorder worsens, we cannot but stop chemotherapy. In this situation, oral bacteria are often detected in the blood. The goal of perioperative oral function management (POMF) during chemotherapy is to allow chemotherapy to proceed smoothly while maintaining the intraoral environment at a high standard. We chose cases of oral bacteria that were detected in the blood cultures of chemotherapy patients and investigated the effect of the intervention of perioperative oral function management. From January 2010 to December 2015, oral bacteria were detected in the blood cultures of 33 patients during chemotherapy. Among these patients, 24 cases were not involved in POMF in 24 cases. Nine patients were POMF intervention patients but were not yet achieved. Also, oral bacteria were not detected from blood culture tests from patients who were able to achieve treatment plan by POMF intervention. Based on these findings, intervention before initiating chemotherapy decreased the detection of oral bacteria in predominance in blood culture tests. Perioperative oral function management before initiating chemotherapy is important to allow chemotherapy to proceed smoothly.