Clinical Study of Poisonous Snakebite

Keimyung Medical Journal 1989;8(2):364-369.

독사 교상의 분석

김석곤; 배옥석; 김유사

Abstract

A total of 107 patients was treated in the Departmant of Dongsan Hospital; Keimyung University during the period between January of 1984 and December of 1987. The majority (72 patient) was in the 5th; 6th; 7th; and 8th decades comprising 67% of the total patients. Male patients outnumbered female with the ratio of 1.45: 1. Forty-eight patients (45%) were farmers. Snakebites occured most frequently during the summer season which is usually the months of June; July; and August. The interval between the time of snakebite and the arrival of patients to the hospital was 12 to 24 hours in 26 patients (24%) and 1 to 2 hours in 18 patients (16.8%). The duration of hospitalization was 1 to 5 days in 76 patients (71%) and the longest period of hospitalization was 22 days in Grade 3 patients. The affected part of the body was the right foot in 31 patients (29%); the right hand in 27 patients (25.2%); the left hand in 16 patients (15%); and the left foot in 2 patients (1.9%). According to the classification of Ward and Parrish; 79 patients (73.8) were in Grade 2 and 21 patients (19.6%) were in Grade 1.