On May 18, the rabies exposure prevention and treatment clinic (animal injury treatment clinic) of Zaozhuang Municipal Hospital officially opened. The hospital has recently passed the relevant qualification review of the Shizhong District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and has become the first tertiary general hospital in Zaozhuang City capable of dealing with severe and complex animal injuries.
Wu Xiurong, deputy secretary of the party committee and president, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Vice President Yu Shujing presided over the event. Liu Peng, the attending physician of emergency surgery (hand, foot and ankle surgery), gave a business lecture on “Outpatient Setting and Treatment of Rabies Exposure Prevention and Treatment”. Hospital team members, heads of functional departments, emergency surgery (hand, foot and ankle surgery) and orthopaedic trauma surgeons, emergency department and central treatment room nurses participated in the activity.
The hospital rabies exposure prevention and treatment clinic (animal injury treatment clinic) is located in the emergency surgery clinic of the new building, set up according to national standards Pre-examination triage room, animal injury treatment room, registration area, vaccination area, observation area, etc., are equipped with advanced special dog injury treatment equipment (pulse wound washing machine), cold chain equipment, and have rabies exposure treatment And non-neonatal tetanus diagnosis and treatment norms related knowledge training and assessment of full-time dog injury treatment, vaccination personnel. The outpatient clinic is open 24 hours a day, standardizing the integrated diagnosis and treatment services such as wound irrigation, surgical debridement, tissue repair, infection control, vaccination, and intimate health education for animal injuries, which greatly facilitates the people who have been scratched and bitten by cats and dogs. Timely and standardized treatment to reduce the risk of infection; and can assist the health administrative department of the jurisdiction to carry out training on standardized treatment of animal injuries, animal injury emergencies and serious adverse reactions and other major public health incidents.
Rabies is an acute infectious disease of the central nervous system caused by rabies virus. A co-morbid infectious disease with a high mortality rate. Human rabies is generally bitten or scratched by infected (or afflicted) animals (dogs, cats, mice, foxes, bats, etc.) or human skin. The virus propagates from the wound to local muscles, and then travels up the nerve bundles to the ganglia. Finally, it reaches the central nervous system and becomes morbid, resulting in death. After a person suffers from rabies, the clinical manifestations are unique mania, anxiety, fear of wind and water, prolapse and pharyngeal muscle spasm, and eventually paralysis occurs and is life-threatening. Patients who are bitten by cats and dogs should not take chances and should go to regular medical institutions for treatment in time. Timely wound treatment and vaccination are the best preventive measures at present, which can greatly reduce the incidence of rabies.
Doctors will use professional techniques to provide the general public with safe, standardized, effective, high-quality and convenient rabies exposure Preventive Disposal (Animal Injury Disposal) Service! (Photography | Zhang Hongtao)