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Snake Bite Management: A Scoping Review of the Literature [PDF]
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2021 Background:. Around the world, snake bite envenomation remains an underreported human health hazard. Envenomation can cause local and systemic complications, especially when there is a lack of antivenom availability.
Jeffrey J. Russell +2 more
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Intravenous snake bite: A catastrophic snake envenomation.
Ann Afr Med, 2023 The rapid onset of life-threatening clinical manifestations in venomous snake bite could be due to an intravenous bite. This article seeks to review and consider the clinical implications, pathophysiology, and management of this rare route of snake ...
Naik SB.
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A study on the clinical, epidemiological profile and the outcome of the snake bite victims in kashmir valley. [PDF]
J Family Med Prim Care, 2022 Background: India is estimated to have the highest snakebite mortality in the world. In India, around 250,000 incidents of snake bite are reported annually with 50,000 deaths. There are about 236 species of snakes in India, most of which are nonpoisonous.
Yaqoob A, Ali Mufti S.
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Annual incidence of snake bite in rural bangladesh. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 BACKGROUND: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in the world and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in many areas, particularly in the rural tropics.
Ridwanur Rahman +10 more
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Prolonged asymptomatic venom induced consumption coagulopathy: Caused by hemotoxic snake bite [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Envenoming and deaths resulting from snake bite are a particularly important public health problem in the tropical world, with the highest burden in rural areas of South East Asia and Africa.
Prabhat Rijal +4 more
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Snakes and Snake Bite in Nepal [PDF]
Tropical Doctor, 1998 At Nepal's northern border with Tibet is the great Himalaya Range. capped by Mount Everest itself (8848 ni) and including four of the other eight highest mountains in the world. South of the Kathmandu Valley at the centre of the country are the lesser mountains of the Mahabharat Range and Churia Ghati Hills.
Bhetwal, BB, O'Shea, Mark, Warrell, D.A.
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Secondary analysis of snake bite data in the Western Region of Ghana: 2006-2010. [PDF]
Ghana Medical Journal, 2016 BACKGROUND A snake bite is an injury caused by a bite from a snake, often resulting in puncture wounds, amputations and sometimes envenomation. Envenoming resulting from snake bite is a particularly important public health problem in rural areas of ...
E. K. Mensah +8 more
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First-hand knowledge about snakes and snake-bite management: an urgent need. [PDF]
Nagoya J Med Sci, 2020 Snake-bite is a well-known but fairly ignored medical problem in India. Lack of precise first aid knowledge for snake-bite is a substantial reason for its severe fatality in human beings. The present study is comprised of a pilot survey that assesses and
Bhargava S, Kumari K, Sarin RK, Singh R.
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Snake bite in Northwest Iran: A retrospective study [PDF]
Journal of Analytical Research in Clinical Medicine, 2016 Introduction: bite affects about 2 million people every year, with more than 100000 mortalities annually. A person bitten by a snake represents a variety of symptoms.
Leila Eslamian +5 more
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