Identifying the snake: First scoping review on practices of communities and healthcare providers confronted with snakebite across the world.

Isabelle Bolon Andrew M DursoSara Botero MesaNicolas RayGabriel AlcobaFrançois ChappuisRafael Ruiz de Castañeda

Published in: PloS one (2020)

Snakebite victims and healthcare providers can play a central role in biting snake identification and novel approaches (e.g. photographing the snake, crowdsourcing) could help increase biting snake taxonomy collection to better understand snake ecology and snakebite epidemiology and ultimately improve snakebite management.

Keyphrases

healthcare
primary care
risk factors
social media
health insurance