A large single-center experience with treatment of patients with crotalid envenomations: outcomes with and evolution of antivenin therapy

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 848-852

  Corneille, Michael G ^a   Larson, Scott ^a   Stewart, Ronald M ^a   Dent, Daniel ^a   Myers, John G ^a   Lopez, Peter P ^a   McFarland, Marilyn J ^a   Cohn, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antivenin; Crotalid; FabAV; Pit viper; Snakebite

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIVENIN CROTALIDAE POLYVALENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; ENVENOMATION; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SNAKEBITE; URTICARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNAKE BITES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 33845194178     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.08.056     Document Type: Article

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