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Venomous snakebite in eastern Ecuador.

K R Kerrigan
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Treatment outcome of 294 hospitalized victims of snakebite injuries in Eastern Ecuador are reported, documenting high rates of morbidity and mortality. One or more major complications occurred in 25% of patients. Complications included blood loss severe enough to require transfusion (29 patients), abscess (26 patients), intracranial hemorrhage (15 patients) and major tissue loss (10 patients). Sixteen patients died, yielding a mortality rate of 5.4%. Death resulted from intracranial hemorrhage in 12 patients and from sequelae of hypovolemic shock in 4 patients.

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K R Kerrigan. 1991. Venomous snakebite in eastern Ecuador.. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1991.44.93

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