Clinical Review
Buyer Beware: Exotic Snakebite
Emergency Medicine. 2011 May;43(5):21-23
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Lewis S. Nelson, MD (Series Editor) and Colleen Birmingham, MD, Samuel Ayala, MD and Michael Touger, MD
A man is unresponsive several hours after being bitten by a cobra. The authors give an overview of venomous snake classification, discuss antidotes, and report the outcome of the case.