Prevalence of snake bites in Kangar District Hospital, Perlis, west Malaysia: a retrospective study (January 1999-December 2000).

Use of Snake Antivenom and Clinical Outcomes in Snake Envenomation: A Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Hospital in Penang, Malaysia

A five-year retrospective review of snakebite patients admitted to a tertiary university hospital in Malaysia

BACKGROUND Although the majority of the snakebite cases in Malaysia are due to non-venomous snakes, venomous bites cause significant morbidity and mortality if treatment measures, especially ant-venom therapy, are delayed. METHODS To determine the demographic characteristics, we conducted a retrospective study on all snakebite patients admitted to the Emergency Department of Hospital Universi...

Retrospective Prevalence of Snakebites from Hospital

A hospital based retrospective study of the prevalence of snakebite cases at Hospital Kuala Lumpur was carried out over a five-year period from 1999 to 2003. A total of 126 snakebite cases were recorded. The highest admission for snakebites was recorded in 2001 (29 cases). The majority of cases were admitted for three days or less (79%). Most of the snakebite cases were reported in the 11-30 ye...

Microbial Enzymes and Their Applications in Industries and Medicine 2016

1Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea 2Institute of Nano Electronic Engineering (INEE), Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 01000 Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia 3School of Bioprocess Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia 4Directorate of Research andTraining,HimalayanCollege of Agricultural Sciences an...

Snake envenomation in a north Indian hospital.

OBJECTIVES To study the clinical profile of snake envenomation in a tertiary referral north Indian hospital. METHODS Retrospective case note analysis of all cases of snakebite admitted to the medical emergency from January 1997 to December 2001. RESULTS Of a total of 142 cases of snakebite there were 86 elapid bites presenting with neuroparalytic symptoms and 52 viper bites having haemostat...