Clinical Toxinology in Australia, Europe, and Americas

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vogel, Carl-Wilhelm (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Seifert, Steven A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tambourgi, Denise V. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Toxinology,
• Subjects: Pharmacology.; Biochemistry.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Animal Biochemistry.

This handbook addresses various topics on clinical toxinology such as the epidemiology and management of snake and insect bites in Australia and different countries in Europe and the Americas. Chapters will be written by experts currently working in the subspecialty, many of whom have first-hand expe...

Table of Contents:

• Animal Venoms and Nephrotoxic Effects
• Australian Chirodropid Cubozoan Jellyfish Envenomation
• Australian Snakebite and Treatment
• Clinical Management of Envenomation by Australian Carybdeid Cubozoan, Hydrozoan, and Scyphozoan Jellyfish
• Envenomation by Australian Hymenoptera: Ants, Bees, and Wasps
• Envenomation by Caterpillars
• Envenomation by Wandering Spiders (Genus Phoneutria).