Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 6 , Pages 619-624, December 2002

Crotalidae polyvalent immune fab (ovine) antivenom is efficacious for envenomations by southern pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus helleri )☆☆

Presented in part at the First Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress, Stresa, Italy, September 2001.

Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Medical Center and Children's Hospital, Loma Linda, CA (Bush, Green); the Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children's Hospital , Loma Linda, CA (Moynihan); the Department of Natural Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA (Hayes); and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, San Bernardino, CA (Cardwell)

Received 10 January 2002; received in revised form 22 April 2002 and 18 July 2002; accepted 24 July 2002.

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 Dr.Bush is a paid participant in an advisory panel for Savage Laboratories, Melville, NY.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Sean P. Bush, MD, 11234 Anderson Street, PO Box 2000, Room A108, Loma Linda, CA 92354; 909-558-4344, fax 909-558-0121; E-mail famensean@aol.com

PII: S0196-0644(02)00660-1

doi:10.1067/mem.2002.129939

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 6 , Pages 619-624, December 2002