Antivenom for snake bite in Korea

Clinical effects and antivenom use for snake bite victims treated at three US hospitals in Afghanistan.

OBJECTIVE Annually, more than 100,000 US and international military and civilian personnel work in Afghanistan within terrain harboring venomous snakes. Current literature insufficiently supports Afghan antivenom treatment and stocking guidelines. We report the clinical course and treatments for snakebite victims presenting to US military hospitals in Afghanistan. METHODS All snakebite victim...

The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite.

Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an additional penalty of poverty. Like malaria, deng...

An objective approach to antivenom therapy and assessment of first aid measures snake bite in

Treatment of systemic envenoming in snake-bite victims has, in the past, depended almost entirely on the individual clinician’s experience in assessing the severity of envenoming. The ef® cacy of treatment is obviously related to the neutralizing potency of the antivenom used, the route by which it is administered and the dose. The development of enzyme immunoassays has permitted a more scienti...

Snake bite.

Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has been largely ignored by medical science. Snake venoms are rich in protein and peptide toxins that have specificity for a wide range of tissue receptors, making them clinically challenging and scientifically fascina...

Plasma clearance time of Russell's viper (Vipera russelli) antivenom in human snake bite victims.