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Td Vaccine

Aka: Td Vaccine, Tetanus Diphtheria Vaccine, Tetanus Toxoid

Protocol
1. Use DTaP Vaccine instead for children under age 7 years
2. Use Tdap Vaccine instead for teens over age 11 and adults under age 65 years old
Dose
1. Adult 0.5 ml IM
2. Interval
  1. Low risk patients: every 8-10 years
  2. Risk of repeat exposure: every 5 years
3. Warming vaccine in hands does not reduce pain
  1. Maiden (2003) Med J Aust 178:433-6
Safety
1. Safe in HIV
  1. See Immunization in HIV
2. Safe in Pregnancy (wait until after first trimester)
  1. See Immunzation in Pregnancy
3. Anaphylaxis rare
4. No death has been associated with vaccine since 1978
5. References
  1. (1996) MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 45(No. RR-12):1-35

Tetanus Toxoid Vaccine (C0039619)
Concepts	Pharmacologic Substance (T121) , Immunologic Factor (T129)
English	tetanus, Tetanus Toxoid Vaccine, tetanus vaccine, tetanus toxoids, tetanus toxoid
Sources	Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)

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