Can steel heal a compartment syndrome caused by rattlesnake venom?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-107

  Dart, Richard C ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; STEEL;

COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSION; EDITORIAL; ENVENOMATION; FASCIOTOMY; HUMAN; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKEBITE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; CROTALID VENOMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS;

EID: 3242805070     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.03.013     Document Type: Editorial

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