Brain Dead Presentation of Snake Bite

Snakebite is considered as a significant public health problem contributing considerably to morbidity and mortality. A neurotoxic snake bite can present from mild ptosis to complete paralysis with external and internal ophthalmoplegia. Three patients presented in emergency intubated outside with dee...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Sonika, Kaeley, Nidhi, Khanduri, Sushant, Kishore, Nand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111932
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_318_17
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author Agarwal, Sonika
Kaeley, Nidhi
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description Snakebite is considered as a significant public health problem contributing considerably to morbidity and mortality. A neurotoxic snake bite can present from mild ptosis to complete paralysis with external and internal ophthalmoplegia. Three patients presented in emergency intubated outside with deeply comatose, fixed dilated pupil, and absent doll's eye reflex mimicking as brain dead.
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spelling pubmed-60693202018-08-15 Brain Dead Presentation of Snake Bite Agarwal, Sonika Kaeley, Nidhi Khanduri, Sushant Kishore, Nand Indian J Crit Care Med Case Series Snakebite is considered as a significant public health problem contributing considerably to morbidity and mortality. A neurotoxic snake bite can present from mild ptosis to complete paralysis with external and internal ophthalmoplegia. Three patients presented in emergency intubated outside with deeply comatose, fixed dilated pupil, and absent doll's eye reflex mimicking as brain dead. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6069320/ /pubmed/30111932 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_318_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111932
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_318_17
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