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Characteristics and Outcome of Snake bite Envenomation Cases Admitted to Banha Fever Hospital

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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WHO (2018) recorded that every year, about 5.4 million snakebites happen worldwide, which lead to 138,000 deaths, and 400,000 cases of infirmity, Although Snakebite is one of the world's most dangerous neglected tropical toxic hazards, it receives little care from global health agencies, charities or governments. The aim of the study was to assess the hazardous effects of snakebite through a retrospective study of snakebite toxicity. All snakebite cases who arrived at Benha Fever Hospitals, Egypt, from the first of January 2022 to the end of December 2022 were presented in the study. All socio-demographic and clinical data were collected and analyzed. The present study recorded 74 cases of snake bites with the majority (37.84%) of cases aged between 20 and 29 years, 58.11% were males, and 70.27% came from rural areas. 59.45% occurred during summer, the majority of cases (54.06%) were bitten by nonvenomous snakes, most cases (62.16%) occurred outdoors, and 59.45% of patients were bitten between 12 pm and 12 am. 81.08% of patients presented mainly with pain with local edema, 33.8% and 32.4% were treated with wound care and immobilization of the injured extremity and antivenom therapy respectively, and 81.08% were improved and discharged. Conclusion Snake bite is an emergency topic in Egypt among rural males aged between 20-29 years.  commonly observed symptoms were pain and local odema; most of the cases were treated symptomatically and most of them improved and discharged.

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10.21608/eajbsf.2023.332053

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Snakebite, fever Hospitals, Retrospective, Neuro-toxic, Venom, Elapidae

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Omima

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Mohamed

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R.

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Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine,Benha University, Egypt

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omimarefaat1331@gmail.com

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Marwa

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Fawzy.

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M. M.

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Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine,Benha University, Egypt

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15

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2

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42221

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2023-12-01

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2023-11-08

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2023-12-28

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107

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119

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2090-0791

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2090-0864

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, F. Toxicology & Pest Control

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https://eajbsf.journals.ekb.eg/

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Characteristics and Outcome of Snake bite Envenomation Cases Admitted to Banha Fever Hospital

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23 Dec 2024