Clinical features and treatment experience: A review of 292 Chinese cobra snakebites
| Autor: | Yan Bi Wu, Hai Hua Chang, Qi Bin Li, Ji Jin Zhu, Quan Fang Chen, Wei Wang, Edward A. Michelson, Rui Xing Yin |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
China
medicine.medical_specialty Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Antivenom Snake Bites Poison control Toxicology complex mixtures Necrosis Internal medicine Epidemiology Chinese cobra Animals Humans Medicine Elapidae Retrospective Studies Skin Pharmacology Tourniquet biology Antivenins business.industry Retrospective cohort study General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Snake bites Surgery body regions surgical procedures operative business |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 37:648-655 |
| ISSN: | 1382-6689 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.etap.2013.12.018 |
| Popis: | Although Chinese cobra snakebite is the most common type of snake venenation in China, it still lacks a comprehensive and systematic description. Hence, we aimed to study Chinese cobra bite cases with particular attention to demography, epidemiology and clinical profile. In this study, a total of 292 cases of Chinese cobra snakebite, presenting between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2012, were retrospectively reviewed. To investigate the effect of treatment at different presentation times (time from snakebite to admission), the patients were divided into two groups: group A included 133 cases that presented |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full Text from ScienceDirect