Is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: A case report

The classification of snakebite is based on clinical examination and laboratory tests. In cases, of suspected hemotoxic snakebite, the anti‐snakebite venom (ASV) is administered based on 20‐minute whole blood clotting time. However, the use of ASV should be guided by the presence of bleeding diathes...

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Autor principal: Dorji, Thinley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6982470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31998515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2598
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spelling pubmed-69824702020-01-29 Is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: A case report Dorji, Thinley Clin Case Rep Case Reports The classification of snakebite is based on clinical examination and laboratory tests. In cases, of suspected hemotoxic snakebite, the anti‐snakebite venom (ASV) is administered based on 20‐minute whole blood clotting time. However, the use of ASV should be guided by the presence of bleeding diathesis along with raised clotting time. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6982470/ /pubmed/31998515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2598 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: A case report
title Is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: A case report
title_full Is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: A case report
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title_full_unstemmed Is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: A case report
title_short Is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: A case report
title_sort is anti‐snake venom required for all snakebites: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6982470/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2598
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