Scorpion sting envenomation in children in southeast Turkey

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-124

  Bosnak, Mehmet ^a,b,c   Ece, Aydin ^a   Yolbas, Ilyas ^a   Bosnak, Vuslat ^a,b   Kaplan, Metin ^a   Gurkan, Fuat ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Diyarbakir Devlet Hastanesi   (Turkey)

^c DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Emergency; Envenomation; Epidemiology; Pediatric; Pediatric intensive care; PICU; Prazosin; Scorpion sting

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; SCORPION VENOM; SCORPION VENOM ANTISERUM; TETANUS TOXOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORPION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 67649482476     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/07-WEME-OR-098RR3.1     Document Type: Article

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