Antivenom for critically ill children with neurotoxicity from scorpion stings

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2090-2098

  Boyer, Leslie V ^a   Theodorou, Andreas A ^a   Berg, Robert A ^b   Mallie, Joanne ^a   Chávez Méndez, Ariana ^c   García Ubbelohde, Walter ^d   Hardiman, Stephen ^e   Alagón, Alejandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d Instituto Bioclon SA de CV   (Mexico)

^e Stephen Hardiman Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASCORP; ANTISERUM; CODEINE; DIAZEPAM; F(AB')2 ANTIVENOM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; PETHIDINE; PLACEBO; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSECT STING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECIPIENT; SCORPION; SEDATION; SERUM SICKNESS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIDER BITE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ANTIVENINS; ARACHNIDISM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

EID: 65649123014     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0808455     Document Type: Article

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