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Review
. 2022 Jan 7:376:e057926.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2020-057926.

Managing snakebite

Ravikar Ralph  1 , Mohammad Abul Faiz  2 , Sanjib Kumar Sharma  3 , Isabela Ribeiro  4 , François Chappuis  5
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Review

Managing snakebite

Ravikar Ralph et al. BMJ. .
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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1
Difference in fangs between elapids and viperids. A) Elapids have short, fixed, front fangs. B&C) Vipers have much longer and retractable front fangs. (Photos courtesy of Ahmad Khaldun Ismail)
Fig 2
Fig 2
Examples of the 20-minute whole blood clotting test. A) With normal blood, a clot is seen at 20 minutes after sample collection. B) Incoagulable blood at 20 minutes, from a patient with Russell’s viper envenoming
Fig 3
Fig 3
Flowchart for the management of snakebite
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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