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Epidemiological Characteristics of Snake-Bite Victims in Gadarif Hospital, Eastern Sudan

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Omer, Saeed Abdallah, Mohamed A-E Abdallah, Suad Ali, Khalid Mohammed Eltayeb, Khalid Abdalla, Tajeldin M. Adam, Gamal K. Ali, Abdel Aziem A.
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	This was a prospective cross sectional hospital based study included 117 patients with a definitive history of snake bite and clinical features consistent with the presÂ¬ence of fang marks at the emergency department, Gadarif Hospital, Eastern Sudan from 1stÂ January 2015 to 1stÂ January 2016 to identify the epidemiological factors of snake bite. The majority of these 117 patients were adult (86.3%) and male gender constituted 85.4%. Most of the patients were of rural residence (65.8%) and were involved in farming related activities (68.3%). A relatively high proportion of snake bite episodes happened in the afternoon times (53.9%) and half of the cases were reported during August (18%) and November.Â (12.8%). Lower limbs were involved in maximum number of the cases (83.7%). The reported systemic reaction included: swelling (100%), sweating (100%), hypotension (54.7%), nausea (51.%), vomiting (47.8%), local bleeding (13.6%), hymoptysis (1.7%)Â and neurotoxic symptoms (0.8%). In this study, there were ten (8.5%) deaths; 7 had grade 3 and the other three patients had grade 4 envenomation. In conclusion Snake bites is a real medical threat in Eastern Sudan; thus, it is very important to educate the native people to increase awareness about theÂ risk of snake bites in particular among male, farmers and during the period from August to November.
Starting Page	76
Ending Page	79
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	3
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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