نتایج جستجو برای: antivenom

تعداد نتایج: 906  

2017
Chien-Chun Liu Chen-Hsien You Po-Jung Wang Jau-Song Yu Guo-Jen Huang Chien-Hsin Liu Wen-Chin Hsieh Chih-Chuan Lin

In Southeast Asia, envenoming resulting from cobra snakebites is an important public health issue in many regions, and antivenom therapy is the standard treatment for the snakebite. Because these cobras share a close evolutionary history, the amino acid sequences of major venom components in different snakes are very similar. Therefore, either monovalent or polyvalent antivenoms may offer paras...

Journal: :The Medical journal of Australia 2003
Geoffrey K Isbister Michael R Gray

OBJECTIVE To determine the spectrum of severity and early diagnostic predictors of redback spider bites (Latrodectus hasselti), and to examine the effect of intramuscular redback antivenom. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective cohort study of calls to New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australian poisons information centres and presentations to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Royal Darwin Hos...

2015
Choo Hock Tan Nget Hong Tan Kae Yi Tan Kok Onn Kwong

Sea snake envenomation is a serious occupational hazard in tropical waters. In Malaysia, the beaked sea snake (Hydrophis schistosus, formerly known as Enhydrina schistosa) and the spine-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis curtus, formerly known as Lapemis curtus or Lapemis hardwickii) are two commonly encountered species. Australian CSL sea snake antivenom is the definitive treatment for sea snake env...

Journal: :Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology 2006
Kenneth D Winkel Peter Mirtschin John Pearn

It was not until the last decade of the 19th century that an experimental approach (led by Bancroft in Queensland and Martin in Sydney and Melbourne) brought a higher plane of scientific objectivity to usher in the modern era of Australian toxinology. This Australia era, 1895-1905, coincided with and in some respects was the result of the new knowledge emerging from Europe and the Americas of t...

Journal: :Wilderness & environmental medicine 2013
Jason D Heiner Vikhyat S Bebarta Shawn M Varney Jason D Bothwell Aaron J Cronin

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...

2013
Erik Hansson Mahmood Sasa Kristoffer Mattisson Arodys Robles José María Gutiérrez

INTRODUCTION Snakebite accidents are an important health problem in rural areas of tropical countries worldwide, including Costa Rica, where most bites are caused by the pit-viper Bothrops asper. The treatment of these potentially fatal accidents is based on the timely administration of specific antivenom. In many regions of the world, insufficient health care systems and lack of antivenom in r...

Journal: :Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi 2010
O F Wong T S K Lam H T Fung C H Choy

OBJECTIVE To review the clinical features and management of patients with injuries related to the Chinese cobra (Naja atra). DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Two acute hospitals in Hong Kong. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The nature of injuries, envenoming features, complications, response to antivenom therapy, and outcome. RESULTS Eighteen patients were recruited during the 5-year study per...

Journal: :PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2021

Background Adverse reactions to antivenom considerably complicate the clinical management of snakebite envenomed patients because it necessitates a temporary suspension life-saving antivenom, increases costs and can compromise patient outcomes. This study sought explore association between cattle-herding occupation ethnic group occurrence early adverse antivenom. Methods cross-sectional was con...

Journal: :The Medical journal of Australia 2004
Bart J Currie

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of snakebite in the "Top End" of the Northern Territory, and the envenoming syndromes of individual snake species. STUDY DESIGN Prospective collection of clinical data and snake identity. SETTING Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH), a 300-bed tertiary hospital servicing a population of 140,000 spread over 522 561 km2. PATIENTS All patients with bites by conf...

2012
Amir Jalali Nazanin Bavarsad-Omidian Mohammad Babaei Hossein Najafzadeh Saeed Rezaei

Hemiscorpius lepturus (H. lepturus) is one of the most dangerous scorpions in Iran. Intramuscular administration (IM) of available Razi antivenom to H. lepturus venom is used by many of Iranian clinicians. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the efficiency of IM route for treatment of envenomed patients by H. lepturus. We compared the pharmacokinetics parameters of venom and ant...

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