- Title
- Snakebite in Australia: a practical approach to diagnosis and treatment
- Creator
- Isbister, Geoffrey K.; Brown, Simon G. A.; Page, Colin B.; McCoubrie, David L.; Greene, Shaun L.; Buckley, Nicholas A.
- Relation
- Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 199, Issue 11, p. 763-768
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja12.11172
- Publisher
- Australasian Medical Publishing Company
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Australian snake envenoming is rare but potentially life-threatening and challenging to manage. Issues to be considered include the natural history of clinical envenoming, appropriate investigation and exclusion of envenoming in suspected snakebite cases, choice and dosing of antivenom, and ancillary treatments.
- Subject
- envenoming; snakebite; coagulopathy; myotoxicity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1045316
- Identifier
- uon:14441
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-729X
- Language
- eng
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