Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2019

Snake bite in Jharkhand:A Hospital based study

M. Rajak, S. K. Sinha, Nilashish, Md. Akram

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Plenty of snake bite cases get admitted to the emergency ward of Bokaro General Hospital having dialysis and ventilator facilities. One hundred patients attending emergency ward ,of snake bite were taken into study irrespective of whether the bite was due to poisonous or non–poisonous snake.Duration of study was June 1st week to end of September,2018.41 bites were viper,13 by coa,3 by common krait rest 43 bites were due to non–poisonous snakes.Clinical manifestation and complications were coagulation abnormality,neurotoxicity,Respiratory failure,disseminated intra vascular coagulation and Acute renal failure.Out of 57 venomous snake bites 9 deaths were recorded.Classification and regression tree algorithm revealed two most important predictors of mortality to be acute kidney injury and respiratory failure.. Death due to snake bite of this proportion cannot be called trivial.Causes can be manifold requiring further elucidation

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SNAKE BITE IN JHARKHAND:A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY, M. RAJAK, S.K.SINHA, NILASHISH, Md.AKRAM INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-5 | May-2019

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