When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: tetanus vaccine wound chart examples treatment plan

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Tetanus vaccine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus_vaccine

    Tetanus vaccine, also known as tetanus toxoid (TT), is a toxoid vaccine used to prevent tetanus. [2] During childhood, five doses are recommended, with a sixth given during adolescence. [2] After three doses, almost everyone is initially immune, [2] but additional doses every ten years are recommended to maintain immunity. [3]

  3. Tetanus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus

    In children under the age of seven, the tetanus vaccine is often administered as a combined vaccine, DPT/DTaP vaccine, which also includes vaccines against diphtheria and pertussis. For adults and children over seven, the Td vaccine (tetanus and diphtheria) or Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis) is commonly used. [43]

  4. Anti-tetanus immunoglobulin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tetanus_immunoglobulin

    Anti-tetanus immunoglobulin, also known as tetanus immune globulin (TIG) and tetanus antitoxin, is a medication made up of antibodies against the tetanus toxin. [1] It is used to prevent tetanus in those who have a wound that is at high risk, have not been fully vaccinated with tetanus toxoid , or have HIV/AIDS .

  5. Childhood immunizations in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_immunizations_in...

    Tetanus is a medical emergency that requires hospitalization, immediate treatment with human tetanus immune globulin (TIG), the tetanus vaccine, drugs to control muscle spasms, aggressive wound care, antibiotics, and depending on how severe the infection is, the patient may need to be put on a ventilator (a machine that breathes for you). [27]

  6. Post-exposure prophylaxis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-exposure_prophylaxis

    Clean, minor wounds All other wounds Unknown or fewer than three doses of tetanus toxoid containing vaccine: Tdap and recommend catch-up vaccination: Tdap and recommend catch-up vaccination Tetanus immunoglobulin: Three or more doses of tetanus toxoid containing vaccine AND less than 5 years since last dose No indication: No indication

  7. Wound assessment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_assessment

    Wound bed, wound edge and periwound skin should be examined before the initial treatment plan is devised. It should also be re-assessed at each visit or each dressing change. For wound bed, the following parameters are assessed: Tissue type; presence and percentage of non-viable tissue covering the wound bed; Level of exudate; Presence of infection

  8. DPT vaccine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPT_vaccine

    The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines to protect against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (lockjaw). [7] The vaccine components include diphtheria and tetanus toxoids , and either killed whole cells of the bacterium that causes pertussis or pertussis antigens .

  9. Neonatal tetanus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_tetanus

    Neonatal tetanus (trismus nascentium) is a form of generalised tetanus that occurs in newborns. Infants who have not acquired passive immunity from an immunized mother are at risk. It usually occurs through infection of the unhealed umbilical stump, particularly when the stump is cut with a non-sterile instrument.