[Inclusion of a rapid test in the current Health Ministry Guidelines with the purpose of improving anti-tetanus prophylaxis prescribed to wounded patients presenting at French Emergency Departments]

Med Mal Infect. 2005 Jun;35(6):323-8. doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2005.04.001.
[Article in French]
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Consensus Development Conference
  • Review
  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
  • Clostridium tetani / immunology*
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Emergency Medical Services / standards*
  • Emergency Service, Hospital*
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay*
  • Expert Testimony
  • Forms and Records Control
  • France
  • Humans
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Reagent Kits, Diagnostic*
  • Tetanus / etiology
  • Tetanus / prevention & control*
  • Tetanus Antitoxin / administration & dosage
  • Tetanus Toxoid / administration & dosage
  • Vaccination
  • Wound Infection / etiology
  • Wound Infection / prevention & control*
  • Wounds and Injuries / immunology*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
  • Tetanus Antitoxin
  • Tetanus Toxoid