Time delays in treatment of snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka and the need for rapid diagnostic tests.
Delays in treatment seeking and antivenom administration remain problematic for snake envenoming. We aimed to describe the treatment seeking pattern and delays in admission to hospital and administration of antivenom in a cohort of authenticated snakebite patients. Adults (> 16 years), who presen...
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Main Authors: | Anjana Silva (Author), Jiri Hlusicka (Author), Nipuna Siribaddana (Author), Subodha Waiddyanatha (Author), Senaka Pilapitiya (Author), Prasanna Weerawansa (Author), Niroshan Lokunarangoda (Author), Sujeewa Thalgaspitiya (Author), Sisira Siribaddana (Author), Geoffrey K Isbister (Author) |
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2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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