Emergency department death from systemic loxoscelism

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 439-441

  Rosen, Jessica L ^a   Dumitru, Jon K ^a   Langley, Emily W ^b   Meade Olivier, Christy A ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ACIDOSIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MALAISE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SPIDER BITE; SYSTEMIC LOXOSCELISM; TACHYCARDIA; TELEMETRY; VOMITING;

ARACHNIDISM; BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84866736129     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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