Common krait (Bungarus caeruleus) bite in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka: A prospective clinical study, 1996-98

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 919, 2002, Pages 276-280

  Kularatne, S A M ^a  

^a Anuradhapura General Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; BUNGAROTOXIN; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DROWSINESS; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; LACRIMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SNAKEBITE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SRI LANKA; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; SWEATING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEASON; SNAKE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BUNGAROTOXINS; BUNGARUS; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SNAKE BITES; SOCIAL CLASS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 0036264402     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.78.919.276     Document Type: Article

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