• Medicina clinica · Nov 2019

    Review

    Use of the tetanus quick stick (TQS) test in the emergency services.

    • Tamara Martín-Casquero, Esther Ruescas-Escolano, and Jose Tuells.
    • Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Universitario del Vinalopó, Elche, España.
    • Med Clin (Barc). 2019 Nov 29; 153 (10): 394-401.

    AbstractStandard procedure when treating tetanigenic risk wounds in an emergency room setting, usually includes administering a dose of gamma-globulin or/and a tetanus vaccine. The rapid detection test (Tetanus Quick Stick [TQS]) can better the current procedure of detecting people who are not immunized. Our objective was to review and analyse the validity of the TQS test, and determine the cost-benefit with the data available. We searched the following data bases for information: WoS, PubMed, EMBASE & SCOPUS. After reviewing articles and applying inclusion/exclusion criteria, we included 20 articles mostly European and written by Emergency room services. Sensitivity ranged from 55%-100%, specificity from 66.6%-100%, PPV: 81.1%-100%, NPV: 42.9%-100%. Most of the tests supported the cost-benefit analysis of the TQS test. We determined that in emergency room situations, it would be beneficial to use the TQS test, and an example of good clinical practice.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…