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Time delays in treatment of snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka and the need for rapid diagnostic tests

Delays in treatment seeking and antivenom administration remain problematic for snake envenoming. We aimed to describe the treatment seeking pattern and delays in admission to hospital and administration of antivenom in a cohort of authenticated snakebite patients. Adults (> 16 years), who presen...

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Autores principales:	Silva, Anjana, Hlusicka, Jiri, Siribaddana, Nipuna, Waiddyanatha, Subodha, Pilapitiya, Senaka, Weerawansa, Prasanna, Lokunarangoda, Niroshan, Thalgaspitiya, Sujeewa, Siribaddana, Sisira, Isbister, Geoffrey K.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2020
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33253208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008914

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