The Incidence of Infection Complicating Snakebites in Tropical Australia: Implications for Clinical Management and Antimicrobial Prophylaxis

Autor:	Laura K. Smith, John Vardanega, Simon Smith, Julian White, Mark Little, Josh Hanson
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962
Zdroj:	Journal of Tropical Medicine, Vol 2023 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1687-9694
DOI:	10.1155/2023/5812766
Popis:	Objective. To define the incidence of infection following snakebite in tropical Australia and the resulting implications for the routine prescription of prophylactic antibiotics. Methods. A retrospective study of all individuals presenting to Cairns Hospital, a tertiary referral hospital in tropical Australia, after a snakebite between December 2013 and October 2020. Results. There were 732 hospitalisations, 720 (98.4%) patients presented within 8 hours of the snakebite, and 29/732 (4.0%) were envenomated. Envenomated patients were more likely to receive empirical antibiotics than nonenvenomated patients (8/29 (27.6%) versus 14/703 (2.0%), p
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