Snakebite: Admissions at a tertiary health care centre in Maharashtra, India
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Snakebite: Admissions at a tertiary health care centre in Maharashtra, India.
OBJECTIVES To determine the outcome, seasonal variation, and death pattern of snakebite cases admitted at the tertiary health care centre in the last 10 years. METHODS This was a record-based retrospective descriptive study at the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Vazirabad, a tertiary health care centre in Maharashtra, India. RESULTS Out of 5 639 admitted snak...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.3865