RT Book, Section
A1 Dart, Richard C.
A1 White, Julian
A2 Tintinalli, Judith E.
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Yealy, Donald M.
A2 Meckler, Garth D.
A2 Stapczynski, J. Stephan
A2 Cline, David M.
A2 Thomas, Stephen H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1166810872
T1 Snakebite
T2 Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 9e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260019933
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166810872
RD 2024/04/24
AB Venomous  snakes  account  for  an  annual  estimated  1.5  million  to  3  million  bites  and  possibly  greater  than  100,000  deaths  worldwide.1  The  American  Association  of  Poison  Control  Centers  reports  an  annual  average  of  6000  bites,  approximately  2000  of  them  by  venomous  snakes.  Because  of  underreporting,  the  true  number  of  snakebites  in  the  United  States  is  possibly  as  high  as  45,000  per  year,  with  7000  to  8000  by  venomous  snakes.2  The  major  venomous  snakes  of  the  world  can  be  divided  into  three  groups:  Viperidae  (vipers  and  pit  vipers),  Elapidae  (includes  Hydrophiinae,  or  sea  snakes;  see  Chapter  213,  “Marine  Trauma  and  Envenomation”),  and  the  diverse  group  of  non–front-fanged  colubrid  snakes  (former  family  Colubridae,  now  split  into  several  families).