Clinical toxinology.

Abstract:

:Clinical toxinology is a specialized area of clinical medicine focused on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases caused by animal, plant, and fungal toxins. This review focuses on recent developments in snakebite. Snakebite is newly recognized as a Neglected Tropical Disease by the World Health Organization (WHO), reflecting the large human and economic cost of this disease. New WHO guidelines on antivenom production are available. The methods of producing antivenom and dosing are changing as understanding of envenoming improves. Lower antivenom doses in some regions are delivering equal outcomes, but antivenom cannot fully treat all envenoming types. Early antivenom treatment may reduce local tissue damage in some types of snakebite.

journal_name

Curr Infect Dis Rep

authors

White J

doi

10.1007/s11908-011-0172-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-06-01 00:00:00

pages

236-42

issue

3

eissn

1523-3847

issn

1534-3146

journal_volume

13

pub_type

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