[Epidemiological and clinical aspects of snake bites in the municipalities of the state of Amazonas, Brazil].

Abstract:

:In the State of Amazonas, accidents with snakes are a public health problem. For this reasons, the objective of this work was to carry out a descriptive study of the snake accidents attended in the health units of 34 municipalities, one district and two border platoons in the State of Amazonas. The characteristics most commonly observed among those involved in snake accidents were: farmers (50. 4%), male (81.3%), belonging to the working age-group (72.1%), bitten on an upper limb (88.5%) by a "jararaca" (48.6%) or a "surucucu" (46.8%) in the rural part of the municipality (70.2%). The local signs and symptoms most frequently observed in those who received medical care more than 6 hours after the accident (57.3%) were edema (76.9%), pain (68.7%), erithema (10.2%) and hemorrhage (9. 3%). The systemic manifestation most frequently observed was hemorrhage (18.8%). Serotherapy was administered in only 65.9% of patients, the intravenous route being the route most commonly used to administer the antivenin (52.3%), while other non- recommended routes were widely used. In the majority of patients the antivenin given was antibotropic. The most frequent complications were: abscess 13.7%, necrosis 12.3%, secondary infection 8.3%, renal insufficiency 2.5% and gangrene 2.5%. The medical procedures most used in the treatment of these complications were drainage 52.6%, debridement 28.9%, amputation 10.5%, surgical cleaning 5.3% and peritoneal dialysis 2.6%. The fatality rate was 1%.

journal_name

Rev Soc Bras Med Trop

authors

Campos Borges C,Sadahiro M,dos Santos MC

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-11-01 00:00:00

pages

637-46

issue

6

eissn

0037-8682

issn

1678-9849

pii

S0037-86821999000600005

journal_volume

32

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