Bir b?lge hastanesi acil servisine kuduz ?üphesiyle ba?vuran olgular?n de?erlendirilmesi [The evaluation of the patients who admitted to a regional hospital emergency service with suspect of rabies]

摘要

Objectives:Rabies is one of the highest mortality rates infectious disease. The aim was the evaluation of the pa-tients who admitted to The Batman Regional State Hospi-tal Emergency Service with suspect of rabies in the dates between June 2011 and November 2011. Materials and methods:Totally, 166 cases who admit-ted to our center was recorded according to the following data: place of residence (rural/urban), contact type and wound information, time after the contact, whether vac-cine or immunoglobulin is applied or not and also the spe-cies, breed and being owned of suspected animal. Results:Our study population consisted of a total of 166 cases including 38 women (23%), 128 men (77%) with the mean age of 22.01 ± 17.90 years. Of all subjects, 105 (63%) lived in urban and 61 (37%) lived in rural areas. Eighty-five percent of suspicious animals (51%) had an owner, while 81 animals were unattended.Conclusions:Our results showed that all admitted pa-tients were vaccinated and the ones contacted with pets or had a surface wound were vaccinated with 3 doses. Moreover, since the 49% of our cases were contacted with animals which cannot be follow-up, our study obvi-ously reveals that in our country deficiencies in the control of waifs still is a public health problem and increases the cost of vaccination