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Última revisão: 16 Mar 2025
Última atualização: 10 Dec 2024

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • circunstâncias da mordida de animal
  • descrição da ferida
  • eritema
  • induração
  • flutuação
  • drenagem purulenta
  • adenopatia regional
  • tecido necrosado
  • sinais vitais instáveis

Fatores de risco

  • idade <14 anos
  • tutela de animal de estimação
  • grupos de alto risco (para infecção por raiva)
  • procedimentos médicos prévios (aumento do risco de infecção em caso de mordida)
  • doenças subjacentes (aumento do risco de infecção em caso de mordida)

Investigações diagnósticas

Investigações a serem consideradas

  • Hemograma completo
  • hemoculturas
  • angiografia
  • fotografia
  • swab do ácido desoxirribonucleico (DNA)

Algoritmo de tratamento

Colaboradores

Autores

Oliver Spencer, MBBS, BSc, MRCS, FRCEM

Consultant, Emergency Medicine

Croydon University Hospital NHS Trust

London

UK

Declarações

OS declares that he has no competing interests.

Subhro Banerjee, MBBS, FRCEM

Consultant, Emergency Medicine

Croydon University Hospital

London

UK

Declarações

SB has no competing interests.

Agradecimentos

Dr Oliver Spencer and Dr Subhro Banerjee would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr A. Parfitt, Dr Randy Taplitz, and Dr Eric Chang, the previous contributors to this topic. AP and EC declare that they have no competing interests. RT has received funding from Pfizer to attend several antifungal symposia and funding from Schering-Plough to attend an antifungal Speaker's Bureau Workshop.

Revisores

Cynthia Christy, MD

Associate Chief of Pediatrics

General Pediatrics/Pediatric Infectious Diseases

University of Rochester

New York

NY

Declarações

CC declares that she has no competing interests.

Gregory Conners, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP, FACEP

Interim Chair of Emergency Medicine

Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

University of Rochester

New York

NY

Declarações

GC declares that he has no competing interests.

Jeffrey R. Suchard, MD, FACEP, FACMT

Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Director of Medical Toxicology

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of California

Irvine Medical Center

Orange

CA

Declarações

JRS declares that he has no competing interests.

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