Successful resuscitation after cardiac arrest following massive brown snake envenomation

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 177, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 646-649

  Johnston, Michelle A ^b   Fatovich, Daniel M ^a   Haig, Andrew D ^a   Daly, Frank F S ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Swan District Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; PREDNISONE; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AMPOULE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BANDAGE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BOLUS INJECTION; CASE REPORT; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLLAPSE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENVENOMATION; EPISTAXIS; EXTUBATION; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEART ARREST; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL BLEEDING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PETECHIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RASH; RESUSCITATION; SERUM SICKNESS; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; THORAX PAIN; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0037011648     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04997.x     Document Type: Article

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