Envenoming by the rough-scaled snake (Tropidechis carinatus): A series of confirmed cases

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-186

  Gan, Melissa ^a   O'Leary, Margaret A ^b   Brown, Simon G A ^c,d,e   Jacoby, Tamara ^c,d   Spain, David ^a   Tankel, Alan ^f   Gavaghan, Chris ^g   Garrett, Peter ^h   Isbister, Geoffrey K ⁱ  

^a GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f 30 Park Avenue   (Australia)

^g Lismore Base Hospital ^*  (Australia)

^h Anaesthetics Nambour Hospital   (Australia)

ⁱ MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MYALGIA; MYOGLOBINURIA; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; TROPIDECHIS CARINATUS; URINALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; CHILD; ELAPIDAE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUEENSLAND; SNAKE BITES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349578783     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02736.x     Document Type: Article

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