Fight or Flee: An Interesting Case of Snakebite With Delayed Recovery

Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease, which is very common in the Indian subcontinent. The severity of respiratory muscle paralysis and the delay in recovery depend upon the dose of the venom injected, the severity of the venom, the species of the snake, the duration of presentation to the hosp...

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Autores principales: Kadirvelu, Gunasri, Gnanamoorthy, Kothai, Suthakaran, Prasanna Karthik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Anesthesiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8747986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35028197
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20280
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author Kadirvelu, Gunasri
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description Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease, which is very common in the Indian subcontinent. The severity of respiratory muscle paralysis and the delay in recovery depend upon the dose of the venom injected, the severity of the venom, the species of the snake, the duration of presentation to the hospital, and the time and dose of administration of anti-snake venom (ASV). The reasons for this delayed neuromuscular recovery still remain an enigma. We highlight such a case of a young adult who had delayed neuromuscular recovery and prolonged ventilatory support following a neurotoxic snakebite.
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spelling pubmed-87479862022-01-12 Fight or Flee: An Interesting Case of Snakebite With Delayed Recovery Kadirvelu, Gunasri Gnanamoorthy, Kothai Suthakaran, Prasanna Karthik Cureus Anesthesiology Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease, which is very common in the Indian subcontinent. The severity of respiratory muscle paralysis and the delay in recovery depend upon the dose of the venom injected, the severity of the venom, the species of the snake, the duration of presentation to the hospital, and the time and dose of administration of anti-snake venom (ASV). The reasons for this delayed neuromuscular recovery still remain an enigma. We highlight such a case of a young adult who had delayed neuromuscular recovery and prolonged ventilatory support following a neurotoxic snakebite. Cureus 2021-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8747986/ /pubmed/35028197 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20280 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kadirvelu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Fight or Flee: An Interesting Case of Snakebite With Delayed Recovery
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title_short Fight or Flee: An Interesting Case of Snakebite With Delayed Recovery
title_sort fight or flee: an interesting case of snakebite with delayed recovery
topic Anesthesiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8747986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35028197
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20280
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