Clinical effects and treatment of envenoming by Hoplocephalus spp. snakes in Australia: Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-12)

Toxicon

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 634-640

  Isbister, G K ^a,b   White, J ^c   Currie, B J ^d   O'Leary, M A ^b   Brown, S G A ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Envenoming; Hoplocephalus; Snake venom; Stephens banded snake

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG BINDING; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HOPLOCEPHALUS BITORQUATUS; HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; HOPLOCEPHALUS STEPHENSI; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POISONOUS SNAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD COAGULATION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN BINDING; SNAKE BITES; YOUNG ADULT;

HOPLOCEPHALUS; HOPLOCEPHALUS BITORQUATUS; HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; HOPLOCEPHALUS STEPHENSII; PSEUDONAJA; SERPENTES; SPILOTES PULLATUS PULLATUS; STORERIA DEKAYI;

EID: 80054092097     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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