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I have been practising medicine in an under-served rural setting since 1976, and have published around 109 papers in PubMed-indexed journals - including The Lancet, BMJ, NEJM and several tropical medicine journals - on scorpion and snakebite cases causing acute life-threatening conditions. I have re...
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Published in | Indian journal of medical ethics Vol. VIII; no. 2; pp. 164 - 165 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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India
01.04.2023
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Summary: | I have been practising medicine in an under-served rural setting since 1976, and have published around 109 papers in PubMed-indexed journals - including The Lancet, BMJ, NEJM and several tropical medicine journals - on scorpion and snakebite cases causing acute life-threatening conditions. I have researched in detail, with restricted resources, the acute clinical effects of envenomation and management of scorpion and snakebite cases [1, 2]. In Mahad, the fatality rate due to refractory heart failure arising from autonomic storm evoked by scorpion venom was previously 30% [3]. Since the advent of prazosin and scorpion antivenom, it has dropped to less than 1% [4]. Similarly, fatalities due to snakebite poisoning have been reduced from 18% to 5. |
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ISSN: | 0974-8466 0975-5691 |
DOI: | 10.20529/IJME.2022.068 |