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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 inIndian journal of medical ethics Vol. VIII; no. 2; pp. 164 - 165
Main Author Bawaskar, Himmatrao Saluba
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India 01.04.2023
Subjects
Animals
Antivenins - therapeutic use
Humans
Prazosin
Scorpion Stings
Scorpion Venoms
Scorpions
Snake Bites - therapy
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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.
ISSN:0974-8466
0975-5691
DOI:10.20529/IJME.2022.068