Crotalidae polyvalent immune Fab (ovine) antivenom is efficacious for envenomations by Southern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus helleri)

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 619-624

  Bush, Sean P ^a   Green, Steven M ^a   Moynihan, James A ^a   Hayes, William K ^a   Cardwell, Michael D ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b S Bernardino Co Sheriff's Dept   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROFAB; CROTALIDAE POLYVALENT IMMUNE FAB ANTIVENOM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROTALUS HELLERI; CROTALUS MITCHELLII; CROTALUS RUBER; CROTALUS SCUTULATUS; DIAPHORESIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETHARGY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; URTICARIA; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

EID: 0036897527     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2002.129939     Document Type: Article

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