Funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) antivenom. 2. Early clinical experience.
This paper describes the successful use of funnel-web antivenom in two severe cases of envenomation from bites by a male funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus. Rapid resolution of the syndrome occurred in both cases. Although the first patient, a 49-year-old man, may have slowly recovered without antivenom, it is unlikely that the other patient, a three-year-old boy, would have survived without antivenom therapy. In both cases the duration of hospitalisation was dramatically reduced.
D000997:Antivenins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001458:Bandages; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005392:First Aid; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D001098:Spider Bites / Q000628:therapy*; D014111:Tourniquets
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