Case report: Compartment syndrome after a suspected black widow spider bite

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 414-416

  Cohen, Jennifer ^a,c   Bush, Sean ^a,b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CIMETIDINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; MORPHINE; SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM; TETANUS TOXOID; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAMNESIS; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; FASCIOTOMY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; VITAL SIGN; ANIMAL; MIDDLE AGED;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; ARACHNIDISM; BLACK WIDOW SPIDER; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

EID: 17844379229     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.06.018     Document Type: Article

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