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The evaluation, management, and prevention of stingray injuries in travelers.
© 2008 International Society of Travel Medicine, 1195-1982 Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2008, 102–109 A sharks may attack man without warning, stingrays are docile, usually nonaggressive, and do not attack man unless disturbed, by coastal waders or divers or caught or netted by fi shermen. Because stingrays are ubiquitous in all temperate and tropical oceans worldwide, and ev...
متن کاملStingray injury.
A case of stingray injury is reported. Local symptoms and signs include intense pain, oedema around the wound, erythema and petechiae. Systemic symptoms and signs include nausea and vomiting, muscle cramps, diaphoresis, syncope, headache, muscle fasciculations, and cardiac arrhythmias. Treatment aims to reverse local and systemic effects of the venom, alleviate pain, and prevent infection. Anti...
متن کاملElectroreception in the euryhaline stingray, Dasyatis sabina.
This study quantified the electrosensitivity of a euryhaline elasmobranch, the Atlantic stingray (Dasyatis sabina) across a range of salinities. Specimens from a permanent freshwater (FW) population in the St Johns River system, FL, USA, were compared with stingrays from the tidally dynamic Indian River Lagoon in east Florida, USA. Behavioral responses of stingrays to prey-simulating electric s...
متن کامل[Stingray injury--a harmless injury for surfers?].
BACKGROUND Stingray injuries with potentially lethal outcomes have been described in the medical literature, but a stingray injury to a surfer does not belong to the injuries treated daily in Germany. PATIENTS We report on a stingray injury to a 31-year-old female with an uncommon course. RESULTS Diagnostics of and therapy for stingray injuries are described. CONCLUSION Stingray stings ar...
متن کاملA Pain in the Wrist: Stingray Envenomation
A 43-year-old man presented to the emergency department after he was swimming in the ocean and felt a sudden sting followed by a burning pain and muscle spasms in his right hand. Physical exam was remarkable for tachycardia and the foreign body (Figure 1). Radiograph of his right wrist is also shown (Figure 2).
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4590595