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Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has been largely ignored by medical science. Snake venoms are rich in protein and peptide toxins that have specificity for a wide range of tissue receptors, making them ...
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Animal bites presenting to the emergency department: Spectrum, seasonal variation, and outcome
Context: Animal bites including insect, reptile, and mammalian bites are common presentations to the emergency department (ED). Although profile and outcome of individual bites are described in detail, the literature on comprehensive overall clinical ...
Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar Abhilash+1 more
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Snake bite in Northwest Iran: A retrospective study [PDF]
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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Background: India is a country known to the West as a country of snake charmers and snakes. Generation after generation, some families in our country continue to play and live with snakes (snake charmers), but we fail to protect the community from snake
Jagannath Pradhan+2 more
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Bites by exotic snakes reported to the UK National Poisons Information Service 2009–2020
Introduction: Snakebite is recognised as a neglected tropical disease and a cause of substantial morbidity and mortality. Whilst the most medically important snakes are typically native of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, the possibility of ...
Pardeep S Jagpal+8 more
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Assessing the Accuracy of a Wrist Motion Tracking Method for Counting Bites across Demographic and Food Variables [PDF]
This paper describes a study to test the accuracy of a method that tracks wrist motion during eating to detect and count bites. The purpose was to assess its accuracy across demographic (age, gender, ethnicity) and bite (utensil, container, hand used, food type) variables. Data were collected in a cafeteria under normal eating conditions.
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The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite
Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an ...
Robert A. Harrison+7 more
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Pit viper (rattlesnake, cottonmouth, and copperhead) snakebites among children and adolescents in the United States are relatively common with a substantial portion of these resulting in envenomation.
Mojave Rattlesnake, Mojave Rattlesnake
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Objective: To evaluate the epidemiology, clinical profile and treatment for patients with snake bite in the intensive care unit of our hospital. Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients with snake bite admitted to the intensive care unit of a ...
Shivali Panwar, Aashish Dang
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Early cardiovascular collapse after envenoming by snakes in Australia, 2005-2020: an observational study (ASP-31). [PDF]
Abstract Objectives To investigate the frequency, timing, and characteristics of cardiovascular collapse after snakebite in Australia, and the complications of collapse following envenoming. Study design Observational study; analysis of prospectively collected demographic and clinical data.
Isbister GK+4 more
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