Pressure immobilization delays mortality and increases intracompartmental pressure after artificial intramuscular rattlesnake envenomation in a porcine model

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 599-604

  Bush, Sean P ^a,b   Green, Steven M ^a   Laack, Torrey A ^a   Hayes, William K ^a   Cardwell, Michael D ^a   Tanen, David A ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Room A108 Loma Linda CA 92354 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE IMMOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SNAKE; SURVIVAL TIME; SWINE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIRST AID; IMMOBILIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; PRESSURE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SNAKE BITES; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9644258611     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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