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This chapter illustrates many different scenarios of emergencies in pediatric envenomation in a question-and-answer format. It contains a variety of cases designed to stimulate thought and further reading in this specialty.

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  1. LSU Pediatric and Emergency Medicine, LSU Spirity of Charity Emergency Medicine Program, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Andrej Pogribny

  2. Professor, Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Lisa A. Moreno-Walton

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Muhammad Waseem

  2. Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Service Line Quality Director,Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics Service Line, Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, North Shore University Hospital Manhasset, New York, NY, USA

    Isabel A. Barata

  3. Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

    Jennifer H. Chao

  4. Emergency Medicine,Associate Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency, Assistant Professor, Department of EM and Pediatrics, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, NY, USA

    David Foster

  5. Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Noah Kondamudi

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Pogribny, A., Moreno-Walton, L.A. (2020). Snake Envenomation. In: Waseem, M., Barata, I., Chao, J., Foster, D., Kondamudi, N. (eds) Prepare for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Board Examination. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28372-8_31

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