Clinical and epidemiologic profile and predictors of outcome of poisonous snake bites – an analysis of 1,500 cases from a tertiary care center in Malabar, North Kerala, India

KG Sajeeth KumarDepartment of General Medicine, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

Santhosh NarayananDepartment of General Medicine, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]

V UdayabhaskaranDepartment of General Medicine, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

NK ThulaseedharanDepartment of General Medicine, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

Pages 209-216 | Published online: 05 Jun 2018

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