TETANUS IN TOY-PISTOL WOUNDS

Tetanus immunity and physician compliance with tetanus prophylaxis practices among emergency department patients presenting with wounds.

STUDY OBJECTIVE We determine tetanus seroprotection rates and physician compliance with tetanus prophylaxis recommendations among patients presenting with wounds. METHODS A prospective observational study of patients aged 18 years or older who presented to 5 university-affiliated emergency departments (EDs) because of wounds was conducted between March 1999 and August 2000. Serum antitoxin le...

Diabetic Foot Wounds: Which Patients are More Prone to Tetanus?

Should we test for tetanus immunity in all emergency department patients with wounds?

BACKGROUND People who present to the emergency department often do not know their tetanus immunisation status. The Protetanus test can determine whether a person is immune and can guide treatment decisions. OBJECTIVES To examine whether testing all patients for immunity is clinically advisable and cost-effective. METHODS 200 patients presenting to the emergency department with wounds were a...

Motor learning of practical pistol shooting

The present study aimed at investigating changes in behavior (shooting precision) and electrophysiological variables (absolute alpha power) during the motor learning of practical pistol shooting. The sample was composed of 23 healthy subjects, right-handed, male, between 18 and 20 years of age. The task consisted of four learning blocks. A One-way ANOVA with repeated measures and a post hoc ana...

Shot Moment in Optoelectronic Training in the Air-Pistol Shooting

The aim of the research is to study the interdependence between the shot moment parameter and the result in shooting simulator training. The article considers the problem of the relationships between a shot moment parameter and a virtual result in training with the SCATT optoelectronic shooting simulator. Special technique is proposed and the experimental investigation with the parallel fixatio...