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Article: Rattlesnake Bite- Tourniquet or Not?
- Article from:
- Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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Rattlesnake Bite Tourniquet or Not?
Abstract & Commentary
Synopsis: Tourniquets are not beneficial and should not be used in the initial management of rattlesnake bites.
Source: Amaral CF, et al. Tourniquet ineffectiveness to reduce the severity of envenomating after Crotalus durissus snake bite in Belo Horizonte Gerais, Brazil. Toxicon 1998; 36:805-806.
The effect of tourniquet placement on the clinical outcome after rattlesnake bite on the extremities was assessed by Amaral and associates in 97 patients who had been bitten by the neotropical rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus, whose venom has both neurotoxic as well as local tissue ...