title: North American poisonous bites and stings.
abstract: Critters and creatures can strike fear into anyone who thinks about dangerous animals. This article focuses on the management of the most common North American scorpion, arachnid, hymenoptera, and snake envenomations that cause clinically significant problems. Water creatures and less common animal envenomations are not covered in this article. Critical care management of envenomed patients can be challenging for unfamiliar clinicians. Although the animals are located in specific geographic areas, patients envenomed on passenger airliners and those who travel to endemic areas may present to health care facilities distant from the exposure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Maricopa Medical Center, 2601 East Roosevelt Road, Phoenix, AZ 85008, USA. Dan_Quan@dmgaz.org
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Quan
mesh_terms: D017836:Agkistrodon; D000818:Animals; D000997:Antivenins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003422:Critical Care; D017839:Crotalus; D017815:Elapidae; D006801:Humans; D006927:Hymenoptera; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D009656:North America; D065008:Scorpion Stings; D012605:Scorpions; D012909:Snake Bites / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D001098:Spider Bites / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D013112:Spiders
chemical_list: D000997:Antivenins