Life-threatening upper airway edema caused by a distal rattlesnake bite

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-82

  Hinze, John David ^a,b   Barker, James A ^a,b   Jones, T Russell ^a,b   Winn, Richard E ^a,b  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; FACE EDEMA; HUMAN; LARYNX EDEMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SNAKEBITE; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 0034956730     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2001.114321     Document Type: Article

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