Clinical characteristics and treatment of patients with refractory spasm tetanus
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1671-0282.2022.05.007
- VernacularTitle:难治性痉挛破伤风患者临床特点与治疗
- Author:
Chaohui WANG
1
;
Jie HU
;
Fei GAO
;
Bao FU
;
Zhengguang GENG
;
Xiaoyun FU
Author Information
1. 遵义医科大学附属医院重症医学科，遵义 563003
- Keywords:
Tetanus;
Refractory spasm;
Clinical characteristics;
Treatment
- From:
Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine
2022;31(5):608-612
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the clinical characteristics and treatment of patients with refractory spasm tetanus.Methods:Tetanus patients admitted to the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University from January 2011 to April 2021 were collected and divided into the refractory spasm group and general group according to whether they were refractory spasm. The general demographic characteristics, clinical characteristics, treatment and prognosis of the two groups were compared. The treatment and risk predictors of patients with refractory spasm tetanus were explored.Results:Among the 59 tetanus patients, 35 patients (59.32%) were in the refractory spasm group and 24 patients (40.68%) were in the general group. There were no significant differences in sex, age, latency and trauma site between the two groups ( P>0.05). All patients with refractory spasmodic tetanus were treated with mechanical ventilation, the length of hospital stay was significantly prolonged, and the rate of pulmonary infection was significantly increased ( P<0.05). The incidence of multiple sites muscular rigidity (spasm/limb stiffness, neck stiffness, and angular pedicle tension) in patients with refractory spasmodic on the first day of admission was higher than that in the general group ( P<0.05). The patients' initial symptoms (within 24 h after admission) were muscle spasm/limb stiffness + neck stiffness + angular pedicle inversion, which had the highest specificity for predicting the occurrence of refractory spasm. The proportion of Ablett grade Ⅳ in patients with refractory spasm was higher than that in the general group, and the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.05). The 48.75% patients with refractory spasm tetanus were treated with more than 3 sedatives combined with muscle relaxants, and the duration of sedative use was significantly prolonged ( P<0.05). Conclusions:The mechanical ventilation time and hospitalization time in tetanus patients with refractory spasm are significantly prolonged, and the incidence of pulmonary infection is significantly increased, which requires the combined application of a large number of sedative and muscle relaxants for a long time, and the incidence of refractory spasm is higher in patients with multi-site muscular rigidity at the early stage of the disease.
