SMJ articles in the category "envenomation"

Original Article

CME Article: Epidemiology and Characteristics of North American Crotalid Bites Reported to the National Poison Data System 2006–2020

Objectives: North American pit viper, or crotalid bites, remain a low-incidence and potentially high-consequence medical event. Although the venom of these snakes is known to cause tissue, hematologic, and neurologic toxicity, the published literature on North American crotalid bites remains limited. The National Poison Data System, the data repository for…

Posted in: antivenom 3 copperhead 2 envenomation 4 rattlesnake 2

Original Article

Fatal and Nonfatal Snakebite Injuries Reported in the United States

Objectives: Venomous and nonvenomous snakes are found throughout the United States. Two families of venomous snakes are indigenous to this country: the Viperidae, or pit vipers (rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads), and the Elapidae (three species of coral snakes and a sea snake). Bites from captive nonindigenous venomous snakes such as…

Posted in: envenomation 4 snakebite 4 surveillance 14

Review Article

The Distribution of Brown Recluse Spiders in the Southeastern Quadrant of the United States in Relation to Loxoscelism Diagnoses

Abstract:The southern and eastern margins of the range of the brown recluse spider run through the southeastern quadrant of the United States. Populations vary from abundant in states such as Arkansas and west and central Kentucky and Tennessee to absent in the Atlantic seaboard states. The diagnosis of loxoscelism should…

Posted in: brown recluse spider 2 distribution 3 envenomation 4 Loxosceles reclusa 2

Case Report

Hand-foot Syndrome in a Patient with Multiple Fire Ant Stings

The case is reported of an elderly patient with known previous exposure to fire ant stings, and who presented with hand-foot syndrome (HFS) in the setting of multiple fire ant stings to the lower extremities. Both hands and both feet were red, swollen, and mildly tender. Treatment was with fluocinonide…

Posted in: envenomation 4 hand-foot syndrome 2
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