Fresh frozen plasma after brown snake bite - Helpful or harmful?

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-15

  Tibballs, James ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEPARIN; PROTHROMBIN; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENVENOMATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SNAKEBITE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 14244268276     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0503300103     Document Type: Editorial

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