Treatment of snakebite in Australia: The current evidence base and questions requiring collaborative multicentre prospective studies

Toxicon

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 941-956

  Currie, Bart J ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAPSE; DELAYED NEUROTOXICITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SIMULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMERGENCY CARE; ENVENOMATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATALITY; FIRST AID; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LYMPH NODE PAIN; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; FIRST AID; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; PRESSURE; SNAKE BITES; TIME FACTORS;

ACANTHOPHIS; ACANTHOPHIS ANTARCTICUS; AUSTRELAPS; AUSTRELAPS SUPERBUS; ELAPIDAE; HOPLOCEPHALUS; NOTECHIS; PSEUDONAJA; SERPENTES; SPILOTES PULLATUS PULLATUS; STORERIA DEKAYI; TROPIDECHIS CARINATUS;

EID: 33751177090     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.07.015     Document Type: Article

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