e majority of scorpion stings are generally seen with a set of simple clinical ndings, such as pain, oedema, numbness, and tenderness in the area of the sting. However, occasionally events, such as toxic myocarditis, acute heart failure, acute pulmonary oedema, and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which occur in scorpion sting cases are a signi cant problem which determine mortality ...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and laboratory features prognosis scorpion stings in children.Methods: This a retrospective children with stings, who were admitted pediatric emergency department Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University (ALKU) Training Research Hospital between 1st January 2019 31st December 2020. Demographic data, admission date, time periods from sting hospi...

Scorpion envenomation is a real public health problem in many parts of the world, especially in North Africa, Central America, South America, the Middle East and India[1] [2] [3] [4], with over 1.2 million cases of scorpion stings and 3250 deaths each year worldwide[5]. Among the 1500 species described, venoms of at least 25 species are of medical importance for humans and the majority of those...

Scorpion stings are currently the leading cause of venom-related injury to humans in Brazil and are a significant public health problem globally. Only scorpions of the Tityus genus are of medical importance in Brazil, and Tityus serrulatus is responsible for the most serious envenomations and deaths. The toxic effects of scorpion envenomation are due to a massive release of sympathetic and para...

Death due to scorpion stings is a common event in many countries. Scorpion envenoming syndrome consists of the clinical presentation of pain at the site of sting, nausea, vomiting, sialorrhea, profuse sweating, abdominal pain, tremors, arrhythmias, hypertension, agitation, hyperglycemia, restlessness, prostration, priapism, pulmonary oedema, many other manifestations and may concern the CNS, th...

    Background: Scorpionism is a public health problem in some provinces in Iran. The present study aimed to assess the clinical manifestations of scorpion envenomation in Shiraz and determine a clinical severity grading for Iranian scorpion envenomation in order to suggest a treatment guideline for emergency physicians.    Methods: In this analytic retrospective stu...

Scorpions are amongst the most ancient arthropods, as the oldest fossils were dated from the late silurian (Proscorpius osborni, 418 million years B.P.) [1]. Extant scorpions (with about 2,000 species spreading globally) are therefore 'living fossils', which retained all of the primitive features except that they are considerably smaller compared to their up to 1-meter long Brontoscorpio anglic...