Stonefish poisoning

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 284-288

  Lyon, Richard Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Poisoning; Scuba diving; Stonefish

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIVING; FISH; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SIDE EFFECT; STONEFISH; STONEFISH POISONING;

EID: 11144294735     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2004)015[0284:sp]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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