RT Book, Section
A1 You, Alan X.
A1 Carden, Donna L.
A1 Moll, Joel
A2 Tintinalli, Judith E.
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Yealy, Donald M.
A2 Meckler, Garth D.
A2 Stapczynski, J. Stephan
A2 Cline, David M.
A2 Thomas, Stephen H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1166597510
T1 Tetanus
T2 Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 9e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260019933
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166597510
RD 2024/04/19
AB Tetanus  is  uncommon  in  the  United  States,  but  worldwide  estimates  are  approximately  100,000  cases  per  year,  with  a  mortality  rate  of  35%  to  40%.1,2  The  Centers  for  Disease  Control  and  Prevention  defines  tetanus  as  a  syndrome  of  acute  onset  of  hypertonia  and/or  painful  muscular  contractions  (usually  of  the  muscles  of  the  jaw  and  neck)  and  generalized  muscle  spasms  without  other  apparent  medical  cause.3  In  the  United  States,  tetanus  is  a  reportable  disease,  aggregated  through  the  National  Notifiable  Diseases  Surveillance  System.