Abdul Jabbar, Wasil Khan, Abdul Ahad, Amin-ul Haq, Akhtar Nawab, Imtiaz Ahmad.
Tetanus Knowledge of Health Workers working in Casualty Dept of tertiary care hospital, Swat.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;13(2):257-8.

Aim: To assess the basic level of knowledge of health care workers working in the casualty and emergency department of a tertiary care hospital about tetanus . Duration of Study : From April-2018 to September 2018. Methodology : This is a cross sectional study including 152 health care workers working in the Casualty department of Saidu group of teaching hospital Swat. A predesigned Performa, having questions , was given to each health care worker and was asked to fill it according to the question asked , after taking an informed consent. The data was analyzed by SPSS Version 20 . Results: Among them , 90.8% of health care worker knew that tetanus is a complication of wound injuries. Only 47.4% of doctors were aware of the correct dosage of tetanus vaccine. Of these, 34.2% of health workers had correct knowledge of mortality. 21.7% of health workers were not administering TT to patients with tetanus prone injuries. Conclusion: Most of the health care workers have poor knowledge about tetanus prone injuries. Training needs to be arranged for health workers at every level to reduce the outcome of tetanus illness.

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