Scorpion sting envenomation - An Overview

Praveen Kumar Devarbhavi; Vasudeva Murthy C R

doi:10.58739/jcbs/v03i4.14

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Scorpion sting envenomation - An Overview

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Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

DOI: 10.58739/jcbs/v03i4.14

Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 159-166

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Scorpion sting envenomation - An Overview

Praveen Kumar Devarbhavi ^1*, Vasudeva Murthy C R ²

1. Department of Medicine, S.S. Institute of Medical Science and Research Center, Devanagari, Karnataka, India.
2. Department of Pathology, International Medical University, Kulala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Abstract

Scorpion stings are a major public health problem in many underdeveloped tropical countries, especially in rural parts of India. Patients often presents with life threatening complications. Envenomation due to scorpion sting results in various clinical manifestations. They range from mild local pain to diffuse intolerable pain of whole limb and body to systemic manifestation involving almost all systems, predominantly cardiovascular and may sometimes lead to death. Key words: Envenomation, Management, Pathophysiology, Scorpions.