Treatment of the first known case of king cobra envenomation in the United Kingdom, complicated by severe anaphylaxis

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-78

  Veto, T ^a   Price, R ^a   Silsby, J F ^a   Carter, J A ^a  

^a FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; HETASTARCH; HYDROCORTISONE; LABETALOL; MORPHINE; PROPOFOL; RANITIDINE; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BOLUS INJECTION; BRONCHOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENVENOMATION; EXTUBATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOVENTILATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; PTOSIS; SNAKEBITE; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED KINGDOM; URTICARIA; WOUND DRESSING;

ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTIVENINS; COBRA VENOMS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SNAKE BITES;

EID: 33845283893     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04866.x     Document Type: Article

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