Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. · Nov 2001
Prognostic factors for local necrosis in Bothrops jararaca (Brazilian pit viper) bites.
The prognostic factors related to envenoming are not very well known. This study aims to identify prognostic factors for necrosis in envenoming by Bothrops jararaca. ⋯ The size of the snake, the bite site (leg and finger), the sex of the patient, the month of the accident, systemic bleeding, and the use of tourniquet were independent prognostic factors within the variables tested in the multivariate analysis. The size of the snake was the most important independent prognostic factor related to the presence of necrosis.