Clinical characteristics of children with snakebite poisioning and management of complications in the pediatric intensive care unit

Pediatrics International

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 669-675

  Ozay, Gonca ^a   Bosnak, Mehmet ^a,d   Ece, Aydin ^a   Davutoglu, Mehmet ^b   Dikici, Bunyamin ^a   Gurkan, Fuat ^a   Bosnak, Vuslat ^c   Haspolat, Kenan ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Diyarbakir Devlet Hastanesi   (Turkey)

^d DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Complications; Management; Risk factors; Snakebites

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SNAKE VENOM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECCHYMOSIS; ENVENOMATION; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SNAKEBITE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TISSUE NECROSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SNAKE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNAKE BITES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 33644874650     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200x.2005.02134.x     Document Type: Article

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