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A pilot clinical evaluation of oral mucosal dryness in dehydrated patients using a moisture-checking device
- Source :
- Clinical and Experimental Dental Research
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study included 30 patients (17 males and 13 females; mean age, 73.7 ± 13.1 years) who were diagnosed with dehydration based on vital signs, skin symptoms, and blood test findings by emergency medicine physicians. First, the attending physician of our department measured oral mucosal dryness. Subsequently, the emergency medicine physician blindly divided the severity of dehydration into three stages according to clinical findings and blood test results. In this study, the oral moisture‐checking device (Mucus®; Life Co., Ltd., Saitama, Japan) was used to measure the oral mucosal dryness. We examined the oral moisture level for each dehydration severity level and the correlations of each severity level of dehydration with the measured values. Spearman's correlation coefficient (Medcalc version 11.3 for Windows) was used for statistical analysis. P
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Correlation coefficient
Static Electricity
Vital signs
Pilot Projects
Gastroenterology
Severity of Illness Index
Tongue
Internal medicine
medicine
Mucosal dryness
Electric Impedance
Blood test
Humans
Statistical analysis
Dehydration
oral mucosal dryness
General Dentistry
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
oral moisture‐checking device
Mouth Mucosa
Original Articles
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Dry mouth
stomatognathic diseases
Original Article
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Clinical evaluation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20574347
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical and experimental dental research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....70c3aa1f57f707c5a6f2b58faeaa1f2c