High mortality due to snakebites in French Guiana: Time has come to re-evaluate medical management protocols

• Rémi Mutricy ,

  * E-mail: remi.mutricy@gmail.com

  Affiliations CIC Inserm 1424 Antilles Guyane, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana, Emergency Department, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0728-0119

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• Xavier Heckmann,

  Affiliation Emergency Department, Centre Hospitalier de l’Ouest Guyanais, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana

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• Maylis Douine,

  Affiliations CIC Inserm 1424 Antilles Guyane, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana, Emergency Department, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana, Ecosystèmes Amazoniens et Pathologie Tropicale, Université de Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana

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• Christian Marty,

  Affiliation French Red Cross, Cayenne, French Guiana

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• Anne Jolivet,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Centre Hospitalier de l'Ouest Guyanais, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana

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• Véronique Lambert,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Ouest Guyanais, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana

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• Frédérique Perotti,

  Affiliation Pharmacy, Centre Hospitalier de l’Ouest Guyanais, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana

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• David Boels,

  Affiliation Poison Control Center, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France

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• Sébastien Larréché,

  Affiliation Medical Biology Department, Hôpital d'Instruction Des Armées Bégin, Paris, France

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• Jean-Philippe Chippaux,

  Affiliations CERPAGE, Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin, Mère et enfant face aux infections tropicales and PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Faculté de Pharmacie, Paris, France

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• Mathieu Nacher,

  Affiliations CIC Inserm 1424 Antilles Guyane, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Ouest Guyanais, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana

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• Loïc Epelboin

  Affiliations Ecosystèmes Amazoniens et Pathologie Tropicale, Université de Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana

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