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Hong Kong Poison Information Centre: Annual report 2019
Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 236-247, July 2022., 2022 Background: The Hong Kong Poison Information Centre (HKPIC) provides consultation service to health care professionals and collect epidemiological data on poisoning in Hong Kong since 2005. Objective: To report and analyse the data of Hong Kong Poison Information Centre on poisoning in 2019.
Tin Yat Anthony Chow +3 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 The development of green technology is creating great interest for researchers towards low‐cost and environmentally friendly methods for the synthesis of nanoparticles. Copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO‐NPs) attracted many researchers due to their electric, catalytic, optical, textile, photonic, monofluid, and pharmacological activities that depend on ...
Fozia Amin +11 more
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Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Treated with Snake Antivenom
Case Reports in Emergency Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Cardiac complications following snakebites are uncommon but fatal. Here, we discuss a case of a snakebite that led to acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Forty‐five‐year‐old male presented to the emergency room with snakebite on the right middle finger. He was given symptomatic treatment and admitted for observation.
Waleed Salem +6 more
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Toxins, 2018 Snake venom-metalloproteinases (SVMPs) are the primary factors that disturb hemostasis and cause hemorrhage in the venomous snake bitten subjects. Kaouthiagin is a unique SVMP that binds and cleaves von Willebrand factor (vWF) at a specific peptide bond ...
Jirawat Khanongnoi +5 more
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What are the characteristics and where is the highest risk of snakebite accidents in the state of São Paulo? [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de EpidemiologiaObjectives: To understand the pattern of snakebite envenomation, the objective was to describe accidents and deaths by snake genus, age group, sex, race/ethnicity, education level, place of residence and occurrence, seasonality, vegetation cover, and to ...
Gisele Dias de Freitas +7 more
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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2018 Introducción. En Colombia se presentan 5 000 casos de ofidismo anuales, un problema de salud pública que por manejo inadecuado provoca mortalidad en el 8% de los casos y discapacidad en el 10%. Objetivo.
Karen Sarmiento +5 more
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Antivenin-related Serum Sickness
Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2010 Serum sickness is a type III hypersensitivity reaction that occurs due to the deposition of excessive circulating immune complexes in patients treated with foreign proteins or haptens. Serum sickness induced by antivenin for snakebites has been frequently reported in the USA, but not in Taiwan.
Wei-Kung Chen +2 more
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Hong Kong Poison Information Centre: Annual report 2018
Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 6, Page 344-355, November 2020., 2020 Objective: The aim of this study was to report and analyse the poisoning data of Hong Kong Poison Information Centre in 2018. Methods: In 2018, all poisoning cases received by Hong Kong Poison Information Centre were retrieved from its database, Poison Information and Clinical Management System, for analysis.
Tin Yat Anthony Chow +3 more
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Antivenom supply and demand: An analysis of antivenom availability and utilization in South Africa
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023 Introduction: Snakebites are a neglected tropical disease. In many areas, envenoming incidence and antivenom administration rates are unknown. This study compared antivenom (AV) availability to rates of envenoming and recommendations to treat (RTT) in ...
Natalie R Neumann +6 more
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Clinical characteristics of stonefish “Oni‐daruma‐okoze” envenomation in Japan
Acute Medicine &Surgery, Volume 7, Issue 1, January/December 2020., 2020 During a 5‐year period, 15 cases of stonefish envenomation occurred in Japan. The patients recovered well without treatment with antivenom. Aim Stonefish, known in Japan as “Oni‐daruma‐okoze” (Synanceia verrucosa Block et Schneider), inhabit the waters surrounding the Okinawa/Amami districts.
Toru Hifumi +7 more
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