Antivenom therapy in the Americas

Drugs

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-15

  Heard, Kennon ^a,b   O'Malley, Gerald F ^a   Dart, Richard C ^a,c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALACRAMYN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANTIVIP; CIMETIDINE; CROTAB; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; GLUCAGON; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; SCORPION VENOM; SNAKE VENOM; SPIDER VENOM; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; BRONCHOSPASM; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOID; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENVENOMATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT CARE; PRECIPITATION; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SNAKEBITE; SPIDER BITE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; ARACHNIDISM; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; SCORPIONS; SNAKE BITES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032815480     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199958010-00002     Document Type: Review

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