Misunderstanding of tetanus passive immunity applications.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Misunderstanding of tetanus passive immunity applications Of: Fu Lijun, Wu Dianchun, Liu promising [Abstract] Tetanus is an acute infectious disease caused by tetanus bacteria, high mortality. Artificial Immune is the most effective prevention methods. But clinical indications in the application of passive immunity to tetanus there are many errors on the one hand, enormous medical resources waste, on the other hand should apply passive immunization tetanus antitoxin (TAT or tetanus immune globulin (TIG and no application, 24 hours after the application of passive immunization is effective? timely application is certainly not suffering from tetanus, the author expound their own point of view. [Keywords:] tetanus antitoxin tetanus immune globulin tetanus immune Abstract: Tetanus is an acute infectious disease caused by clostridium tetani, which has high mortality rate.Artificial immunization is the most effective method of prevention.However, there are many misunderstandings on the clinical application of tetanus in the passive immunization indications.On one hand , these cause huge waste of medical resources, on the other hand, sometimes passive immune should be used but failed.Is it effective to use passive immunization after 24 hours? Whether the timely application of passive immune is effective? The author’s own views are presented . Keywords:: tetanus, TAT, TIG, artificial immune Tetanus is a serious infectious disease, mortality as high as 20%, but at the same time is a preventable disease. Artificial immunity is recognized as the world’s most effective prevention methods [1], may be clinically for various reasons, In particular, passive avoidance of immune - tetanus antitoxin (TAT or tetanus immune globulin (TIG applications there are many errors. 1 TAT or TIG applications 1.1 The indications and contraindications Indications: for the prevention and treatment of tetanus. Tetanus or suspicious symptoms have