Articles: dogs.
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Dog bite injuries commonly fall under the radar of the public health surveillance systems. Nevertheless, these incidents may result in emotional distress, disfigurement, functional deficit, or exposure to zoonotic agents and therefore may have a considerable impact on public health. ⋯ Dog bite surveillance offers important epidemiological information on the respective traumatic impact. HIPPOKRATIA 2023, 27 (2):82-88.
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Postgraduate medicine · Jan 2023
Clinical features and management of animal bites in an emergency department: a single-center experience.
This study aimed to evaluate the clinical features, management, and outcomes of patients with animal bites presented to the pediatric emergency department of a tertiary center. ⋯ Animal bites often cause minor injuries. However, multiple dog attacks can be seen related to a high number of stray animals in our country. Therefore, these patients may present with major traumas. Surgical intervention and hospitalization may be required. Emergency physicians play an essential role in acute management and rabies prophylaxis in these patients.
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Describe a dose rounding strategy for rabies immune globulin (RIG) administration. ⋯ RIG dose rounding to the nearest vial size is associated with cost savings and prevention of wasting RIG IU. There was no association with re-presentation to the ED or PCP with RIG related issues within 7 days from administration.
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Assessing the global risk of rabies exposure is a complicated task requiring individual risk assessments, knowledge of rabies epidemiology, surveillance capacity and accessibility of rabies biologics on a national and regional scale. In many parts of the world, availability of this information is limited and when available is often dispersed across multiple sources. This hinders the process of making evidence-based health and policy recommendations to prevent the introduction and spread of rabies. ⋯ We developed a comprehensive and easily accessible source of information for assessing the rabies risk for individual countries that included a database of rabies risk and protective factors based on enzootic status and availability of biologics, provided a resource that categorizes risk by country and provided guidance based on these risk categories for travelers and importers of dogs into the United States.