When do you give a tetanus booster? - ✔️✔️Every 10 years
What bug does Tetanus shot prevent - ✔️✔️Clostridium tetani
What does Diphtheria vaccine prevent? - ✔️✔️Corynerbacterium diphtheriae
What does Pertussis vaccine prevent? - ✔️✔️Bordetella Pertussis (Whooping cough)
Afluria IM - ✔️✔️Inactivated Influenze Vaccine
>=6 months old
Afluria jet injector - ✔️✔️Inactivated Influenze Vaccine
needle free
18-64 years old
Fluzone Quadrivalent - ✔️✔️Inactivated Influenze Vaccine
Thimerosal free
>=6 months old
Recombivax HB - ✔️✔️interchagneable with Engerix B
Not live, IM
keep in fridge
yeast allergy
3 doses
Kids: at birth, 1 month, 6 months
Adults: 0, 1 and 6 months
if series is delayed between doses, do nto start over, just continue
Heplisav B - ✔️✔️CpG-adjuvanted recombinant hep B vaccine
for >18 year old
Two doses one month apart
Who gets Hep b vaccine - ✔️✔️All neonates at birth before discharge
Unvaccinated children<19 years
Health care workers
DM patients 19-59 years old
IVDA, inmates, HIV, liver disease
Hemodialysis patients
Sexually active >1 partner in 6 month, men having sex with men, patients seeking
treatment for STD
, What to do if infants born to Hep B positive mothers - ✔️✔️Infants need Hep B immune
globulin (HBIG) and hep B vaccine within 12 hours
What happens to patients with post exposure to Hep B - ✔️✔️if unvaccinated or
incompletely vaccinated, should receive HBIG and Hep B vaccine ASAP
Havrix - ✔️✔️Interchangeable with VAQTA
not live IM
12 months - 18 years old
two doses 2nd dose 6-12 months apart
if 2nd dose is delayed no need repeat
VAQTA - ✔️✔️Interchangeable with Havrix
not live IM
not live IM
12 months - 18 years old older than 2 years old give if they are traveling
two doses 2nd dose 6-12 months apart
if 2nd dose is delayed no need repeat
Who gets Hep A vaccine - ✔️✔️Toddlers 1 to 2 years old
People traveling outside the US 2 weeks before they travel
IVDA
Men having sx with men
Chronic liver disease
Clotting factor disorders
Where can I find the most current vaccine recommendation - ✔️✔️CDC Website
What provides information on commonly used vaccines and the diseases they prevent -
✔️✔️Pink book
Influenza vaccine for Kids - ✔️✔️IM: kids 6 months old to 8 years old if previously
unvaccinated should reveive 2 doses separated by more than 4 weeks and then once
yearly
Flumist 2-8 years old 2 doses seperrated by 4 weeks
Can you give live vaccines to pregnant women? - ✔️✔️no
Engerix-B - ✔️✔️interchagneable with Recombivax B
Not live, IM
keep in fridge
yeast allergy
3 doses
Kids: at birth, 1 month, 6 months
Adults: 0, 1 and 6 months