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Interviewer: What is the thing you should be worried about if you end up with a dog bite? We're going to talk about dog bites next on The Scope.

Dr. Troy Madsen's an emergency room physician at University of Utah health care.

And if you get bitten by a dog, what do you need to know? Dr. Madsen, go.

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Dr. Madsen: So the biggest thing we think about with dog bites are infection. That's probably the first thing that comes to mind for me in any kind of bite dog, cat, whatever, but in particular with dog bites.

So when I see someone with a dog bite, first of all, I'm looking at the wound itself.

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Are they moving their hand okay? Let's say they got bitten on their hand or on their forearm. Do all the tendons seem like they're intact? Can they feel?

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Are the nerves working okay? Is the blood flowing okay, making sure there's no damage to any of the vessels there? So anything I would do it any sort of laceration, that's what I'm doing with the dog bite.

But the big thing, I think, about say someone falls and cuts their arm or cuts t

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