INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 1

Therapeutic Management of Snake Envenomation -A Report of Two Canines

  • Author:
  • M. Chandrasekar, T.S. Logasri, M.B. Thilagar
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 224 to 225

Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS), Chennai -600007 (Tamil Nadu)

*Professor and Corresponding author. E-mail: ecpetclinic@gmail.com

Online published on 17 January, 2022.

Abstract

The communication presents history, clinical manifestation, hemato-biochemical findings and therapeutic management of one viper and another cobra envenomation in dogs. Fang marks and edema at the site of bite, hemoglobinuria and leukocytosis with neutrophilia were consistent findings. The treatment included antivenom, antibiotic, tetanus toxoid, fluid and oxygen therapy.

Keywords

Antivenom, Cobra, Snake envenomation, Viper