Profilaxia do tétano: o descaso tem consequências graves
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Data
1994-02
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Ruy de Souza Lino Junior
Resumo
From January 1989 to June 1993 the "Hospital de Doenças Tropicais-
SESMA/GO" admitted 163 pacients wíth tetanus (8 neonatal and 155 from trauma).
Sixty-eight of the latter group had received medicai care alter the trauma injury but
the tetanus prophylaxis hadn't been correctly administered, só lhe patienls developpcd
the disease.
Most of these patients were men (65,0%) and 25,8% country workers. Feel
and legs were the most frequent injury sities. Seveuty-four patients (45,4%) remained
in the hospital for more than 15 days. The hospital infection rate was 34,3%
especially with nosocomial pneumonias. The disease and/or its complications caused
31 deaths.
Medicai carelessness with tetanus prophylaxis hás had serious results and
this analysis of the problem is necessary for medicai atualization and feedback for
preventive programs.
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Tétano, Profilaxia, Tetanus, Profilaxis
Citação
PEREIRA, Ledice Inacia de Araújo; SOUZA, Marta Antunes de; ALMEIDA NETTO, Joaquim Caetano de. Profilaxia do tétano: o descaso tem consequências graves. Revista de Patologia Tropical, Goiânia, v. 23, n. 1, p. 83-91, jan./jun. 1994. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/iptsp/article/view/20037/11609>.