Serum Sickness Following Administration of Antivenin (Crotalidae) Polyvalent in 181 Cases of Presumed Rattlesnake Envenomation

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 220-221

  LoVecchio, Frank ^a,b,e   Klemens, Jane ^a,d   Roundy, Elizabeth BoAnn ^c   Klemens, Annie ^a,d  

^a Good Samaritan Reg Med/Poison Ctr   (United States)

^b MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Good Samaritan Reg poison Ctr Depatment of Medical Toxicology   (United States)

Author keywords

Antivenin; Envenomation; Rattlesnake; Serum sickness; Snakebite

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIVENIM CROTALIDAE POLYVALENT; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PREDNISONE; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ARTHRALGIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ENVENOMATION; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; POISON CENTER; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SNAKEBITE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0348048856     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2003)14[220:SSFAOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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