Initial Experience with Crotalidae Polyvalent Immune Fab (Ovine) Antivenom in the Treatment of Copperhead Snakebite

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 200-206

  Lavonas, Eric J ^a   Gerardo, Charles J ^b   O'Malley, Gerald ^c   Arnold, Thomas C ^d   Bush, Sean P ^e   Banner Jr , William ^f   Steffens, Mark ^g   Kerns II, William P ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

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

^f University of Oklahoma Tulsa College of Medicine   (United States)

^g Western Wake Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALIDAE POLYVALENT IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGKISTRODON; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LIMB SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; POISON CENTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SNAKEBITE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; WORK;

EID: 0942268947     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.08.009     Document Type: Article

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