منابع مشابه
Dog bite wounds in a child.
Children have more than twice the risk of adults and those aged 0 to 9 years are more likely to suffer higher injury rates, with wounds to the head and face.4 Most dog bite wounds are minor, but severe lacerations, especially on the face, more commonly occur in toddlers. A study in Thailand showed school-aged children are at the highest risk of suffering animal bites and the most common sites o...
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Epidemiology of bite wounds in dogs resulted from intraspecies conflict were treated and evaluated from 114 records in 1999-2003 at Small Animal Clinic, Department of Surgery, University of Adnan Menderes in Aydın. Type and time of injury and body areas injured were rewieved in 105 dogs and 9 cats that were bitten by dogs. Male dogs were more frequently bitten than females. The weight distribut...
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The use of prophylactic antibiotics in the initial treatment of noninfected dog bite wounds is controversial. All patients with noninfected dog bite wounds who presented to our emergency department (ED) over a two-year period were considered for entry into a randomized prospective study. Patients were excluded from the study if they had any high-risk criteria for infection: puncture wounds, han...
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Local Tissue Injury In bite wounds, shearing, tensile, and compressive forces often combine to damage tissues. Little energy is transmitted to the wounded tissues in a simple shearing injury, and tissue devitalization is often minimal. Tensile forces result in avulsion of the skin from underlying tissue. Avulsion of muscles can also occur in the deeper tissue layers, resulting in hernias and mu...
متن کامل[Fatal dog bite injuries].
In the absence of her parents, a girl of 4 months was killed by a 2-year old male Rottweiler dog belonging to the same family. The dog's front teeth left marks of individual, circular or scratch-like abrasions as well as slit-like severances of the skin, arranged in curved lines. The pattern of the skin-lesions largely correspond to the anatomy of the dog's set of teeth. No tissue defects (effe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine: Open Access
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2165-7548
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000e120