Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 175-180, February 2001

Role of surgical intervention in the management of crotaline snake envenomation☆☆☆

Presented at the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology’s “Advances in the Management of Snakebite” Symposium, October 1999, La Jolla, CA.

South Georgia Surgical Associates, PC, Thomasville, GA.

Received 29 November 2000; accepted 1 December 2000.

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☆ Dr. Hall was a clinical investigator in the trials of the experimental antivenom described in the text and was a paid speaker in the symposium Advances in the Management of Snakebite that was sponsored by Savage Laboratories.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Edward L. Hall, MD, South Georgia Surgical Associates, PC, 100 Mimosa Drive, Thomasville, GA 31799-0520;,912-226-8881, fax 912-225-2165;,E-mail sgsa@rose.net .

PII: S0196-0644(01)43644-4

doi:10.1067/mem.2001.113373

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