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==Diagnosis== | ==Diagnosis== | ||
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[[File:Rattle snake.jpg|thumb|[[Rattlesnake]]]] | |||
==Differential Diagnosis== | ==Differential Diagnosis== | ||
Revision as of 04:16, 2 July 2015
Overview
In the United States, snake bites can be organized into Crotaline (Pit Vipers) and Elapidae (Coral Snakes). Although somewhat simplified, the Crotalidae family also includes rattlesnakes, Sistrurus and Agkistrodon species (water moccasins and copperheads).[1]
Diagnosis
- Clinical Diagnosis
Differential Diagnosis
Envenomations, bites and stings
- Hymenoptera stings (bees, wasps, ants)
- Mammalian bites
- Closed fist infection (Fight bite)
- Dog bite
- Marine toxins and envenomations
- Toxins (ciguatera, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, scombroid, tetrodotoxin
- Stingers (stingray injury)
- Venomous fish (catfish, zebrafish, scorpion fish, stonefish, cone shells, lionfish, sea urchins)
- Nematocysts (coral reef, fire coral, box jellyfish, sea wasp, portuguese man-of-war, sea anemones)
- Phylum porifera (sponges)
- Bites (alligator/crocodile, octopus, shark)
- Scorpion envenomation
- Reptile envenomation
- Spider bites
See Also
Source
- ↑ Goldfranks Toxicology - Envenomations