Abstract:The major clinical effects of Australian elapid snake envenomation are neurotoxicity and coagulopathy. Human patients appear to have greater susceptibility to the coagulopathic effects but are less susceptible to the neurotoxic effects, when compared to dogs and cats. The envenomation syndrome in dogs tends to be different than cats. Dogs often demonstrate clinical signs prior to the onset of paralysis, such as vomiting, and can have very rapid progression of neurotoxicity while cats do not tend to have prepar… Show more
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