Suspected snakebite: One year prospective study of emergency department presentations

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 160-169

  Isbister, Geoffrey K ^a,c   Currie, Bart J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NEWCASTLE MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brown snake; Diagnostic algorithms; Snake; Snakebite; Toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIVENINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SNAKE BITES; URINALYSIS; WHOLE BLOOD COAGULATION TIME;

EID: 0038709572     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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