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Envenoming and antivenom use in Australia
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Red back spiderAntivenom is the most commonly used antivenom, with reports of usage being greater than for all other antivenoms combined, and clinical experience suggests only 20% of red back spider bites require antivenOM therapy.About:
This article is published in Toxicon.The article was published on 1998-11-01. It has received 66 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Antivenom & Pseudonaja.read more
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Antivenom treatment in arachnidism.
TL;DR: For example, the Australian redback antivenom is commonly used by the intramuscular route, which may not be as effective as intravenous use based on clinical experience and animal studies.
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Latrodectism: a prospective cohort study of bites by formally identified redback spiders
TL;DR: The spectrum of severity and early diagnostic predictors of redback spider bites are determined and the effect of intramuscular redback antivenom is examined.
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Spiders of Medical Importance in the Asia-Pacific: Atracotoxin, Latrotoxin and Related Spider Neurotoxins
TL;DR: There appears to be extensive cross‐reactivity of species‐specific widow spider antivenom within the family Theridiidae, and Sydney funnel‐web antivenoms has been shown to be effective in the treatment of mouse spider envenomation.
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Antivenom use, premedication and early adverse reactions in the management of snake bites in rural Papua New Guinea
David J. Williams,S. Jensen,S. Jensen,Bill Nimorakiotakis,Bill Nimorakiotakis,Reinhold Muller,Kenneth D. Winkel +6 more
TL;DR: Polyvalent antivenom is the main treatment for envenomation in rural health centres, and early adverse reactions are common, and Adrenaline premedication appears to significantly reduce acute adverse reaction rates.
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Snakebite in tropical Australia, Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya
TL;DR: The brown snake paradox as mentioned in this paper states that textilotoxin is one of the most potent neurotoxins known, yet neurotoxicity is uncommon in brown snake envenoming, leading to the so-called "brown snake paradox".
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Rationalisation of first-aid measures for elapid snakebite.
TL;DR: The plasma of monkeys envenomated with tiger snake venom was monitored by radioimmunoassay for both crude venom and a neurotoxin and pressure alone or immobilisation alone did not delay venom movement.
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Premedication for snake antivenom.
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