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Understand Choices, Ace This Tetanus Case Study

Published on Tue Feb 19, 2019

Context key for correct procedure, Dx documentation. A 35-year-old patient reports to your provider after stepping on a rusty nail two days before. Your provider notes an open 1.2 cm wound on the patient’s left foot and performs a simple closure. The physician checks the patient’s records and notes that the patient last received a tetanus shot over ten years [...]
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