Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Division of General Inpatient Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Penn State Children's Hospital, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2019 Sep 25;8(4):358-360. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piy086.
Approximately 20% of the nationally reported tetanus infections in children aged 0 to 14 years that occurred in the United States between 2005 and 2015 were treated at Penn State Children's Hospital. With an electronic medical record search, we identified 5 cases of pediatric tetanus; 100% of these cases occurred in unimmunized children. Their median length of stay was 10 days, and the costs were significant.
在 2005 年至 2015 年期间,美国报告的全国范围内 0 至 14 岁儿童破伤风感染病例中,约有 20%在宾夕法尼亚州立儿童医院接受治疗。通过电子病历搜索,我们发现了 5 例儿科破伤风病例;这些病例 100%发生在未免疫的儿童中。他们的中位住院时间为 10 天,费用很高。