Short-term outcomes after fab antivenom therapy for severe crotaline snakebite

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Lavonas, Eric J ^a,b   Kokko, Jamie ^a   Schaeffer, Tammi H ^a,b   Mlynarchek, Sara L ^a   Bogdan, Gregory M ^a,c   Dart, Richard C ^a,b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CHILD; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; LUNG TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SERUM SICKNESS; SNAKEBITE; SWELLING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROTALID VENOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SNAKE BITES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIPERIDAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751591017     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.06.550     Document Type: Article

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