Stonefish envenomation of hand with impending compartment syndrome

BACKGROUND: Marine stings and envenomation are fairly common in Malaysia. Possible contact to various marine life occurs during diving, fishing and food handling. Even though majority of fish stings are benign, there are several venomous species such as puffer fish, scorpion fish, lionfish, stingray...

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Autores principales: Tay, Terence Khai Wei, Chan, Han Zhe, Ahmad, Tunku Sara Tunku, Teh, Kok Kheng, Low, Tze Hau, Wahab, Nuraliza Ab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0112-y
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author Tay, Terence Khai Wei
Chan, Han Zhe
Ahmad, Tunku Sara Tunku
Teh, Kok Kheng
Low, Tze Hau
Wahab, Nuraliza Ab
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description BACKGROUND: Marine stings and envenomation are fairly common in Malaysia. Possible contact to various marine life occurs during diving, fishing and food handling. Even though majority of fish stings are benign, there are several venomous species such as puffer fish, scorpion fish, lionfish, stingray and stonefish that require urgent medical treatment. Stonefish is one of the most venomous fish in the world with potential fatal local and systemic toxicity effects to human. CASE PRESENTATION: We reported a case of stonefish sting complicated with impending compartment syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: Medical staff should be alert about the possibility of this potential emergency in standard management of stonefish stings.
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spelling pubmed-48620762016-05-11 Stonefish envenomation of hand with impending compartment syndrome Tay, Terence Khai Wei Chan, Han Zhe Ahmad, Tunku Sara Tunku Teh, Kok Kheng Low, Tze Hau Wahab, Nuraliza Ab J Occup Med Toxicol Case Report BACKGROUND: Marine stings and envenomation are fairly common in Malaysia. Possible contact to various marine life occurs during diving, fishing and food handling. Even though majority of fish stings are benign, there are several venomous species such as puffer fish, scorpion fish, lionfish, stingray and stonefish that require urgent medical treatment. Stonefish is one of the most venomous fish in the world with potential fatal local and systemic toxicity effects to human. CASE PRESENTATION: We reported a case of stonefish sting complicated with impending compartment syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: Medical staff should be alert about the possibility of this potential emergency in standard management of stonefish stings. BioMed Central 2016-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4862076/ /pubmed/27168760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0112-y Text en © Tay et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168760
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