Citation

Fisher MM, Raftos J, McGuinness RT, Dicks IT, Wong JS, Burgess KR, Sutherland SK. Med. J. Aust. 1981; 2(10): 525-526.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Australian Medical Association, Publisher Australasian Medical Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7321948

Abstract

This paper describes the successful use of funnel-web antivenom in two severe cases of envenomation from bites by a male funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus. Rapid resolution of the syndrome occurred in both cases. Although the first patient, a 49-year-old man, may have slowly recovered without antivenom, it is unlikely that the other patient, a three-year-old boy, would have survived without antivenom therapy. In both cases the duration of hospitalisation was dramatically reduced.

Language: en