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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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Animal bites presenting to the emergency department: Spectrum, seasonal variation, and outcome
Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2021 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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Bites by exotic snakes reported to the UK National Poisons Information Service 2009–2020
Clinical toxicology, 2022 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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Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2023 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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Clinical profile and outcomes of snake bite poisoning in a tertiary care centre in South Tamilnadu [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Snake-bites are well-known common medical emergencies in many parts of the world. In India 46,000 people are dying every year from snakebites. However, the true scale of mortality and morbidity from snake-bite remains uncertain.
B., Meenakshi +3 more
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Assessing the Accuracy of a Wrist Motion Tracking Method for Counting Bites across Demographic and Food Variables [PDF]
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2017, 2018 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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Emergency medicine, 2018 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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The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite
The Lancet, 2010 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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Journal of Acute Disease, 2019 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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Snake Bite: A review of Current Literature [PDF]
, 2014 Snake bite is a significant public health problem in rural areas of many parts of the world1. Venomous snakes are found worldwide, except for a few islands and the frozen environments. Snake bite most commonly affects those living in the tropical and sub-
Dreyer, JS, Dreyer, SB
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