Pressure-Immobilization Bandages Delay Toxicity in a Porcine Model of Eastern Coral Snake ( Micrurus fulvius fulvius) Envenomation

• Published in: Annals of emergency medicine Vol. 45; no. 6; pp. 603 - 608
• Main Authors: German, Benjamin T., Hack, Jason B., Brewer, Kori, Meggs, William J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Mosby, Inc 01.06.2005; Elsevier
• Subjects: Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Animals; Bandages; Biological and medical sciences; Disease Models, Animal; Drug toxicity and drugs side effects treatment; Elapidae; Emergency and intensive respiratory care; Intensive care medicine; Medical sciences; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Pressure; Random Allocation; Snake Bites - therapy; Snake Venoms - toxicity; Survival Rate; Swine; Time Factors; Toxicity: nervous system and muscle; Vertebrata; Intensive care; Mammalia; Envenomation; Immobilization; Delayed toxicity; Artiodactyla; Ungulata; Resuscitation; Pig

Pressure-immobilization bandages are used in countries where neurotoxic snake envenomations are common. They impede lymphatic egress from the bite site and delay systemic venom toxicity. The effectiveness of these devices has not been evaluated in coral snake envenomations. We investigated the effic...