ALLMedicine™ Human Bites Center

Apr 10th, 2021 - Human bites are an infrequent cause of emergency department visits and hospital admissions. There are rarely published cases of complicated infection, such as infective endocarditis. We present a rare case of a patient with acute infective endocar...

Mar 31st, 2021 - Bites are an important contributor to traumatic injury worldwide. In low- and middle-income countries, data regarding bite injuries outside of rabies is limited. Therefore, we sought to describe the injury characteristics and outcomes of bites in ...

Feb 21st, 2021 - Snakebites in Europe are mostly due to bites from Viperidae species of the genus Vipera. This represents a neglected public health hazard with poorly defined incidence, morbidity and mortality. In Europe, fourteen species of "true vipers" (subfami...

Nov 4th, 2020 - Hypnale hypnale, Hypnale zara and Hypnale nepa are the three species of Hump nosed pit vipers that are implicated in human bites in Sri Lanka. H. zara and H. nepa are two endemic species to the country. The objective of the study was to characteri...

Feb 27th, 2019 - Background: The optimal treatment of human bites to the dorsal metacarpophalangeal region (ie, "fight bite") in the absence of gross purulence is controversial. Few studies have compared the outcomes of operative debridement with expectant wound c...

Apr 10th, 2021 - Human bites are an infrequent cause of emergency department visits and hospital admissions. There are rarely published cases of complicated infection, such as infective endocarditis. We present a rare case of a patient with acute infective endocar...

Mar 31st, 2021 - Bites are an important contributor to traumatic injury worldwide. In low- and middle-income countries, data regarding bite injuries outside of rabies is limited. Therefore, we sought to describe the injury characteristics and outcomes of bites in ...

Feb 21st, 2021 - Snakebites in Europe are mostly due to bites from Viperidae species of the genus Vipera. This represents a neglected public health hazard with poorly defined incidence, morbidity and mortality. In Europe, fourteen species of "true vipers" (subfami...

Jan 19th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back to The Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Frank Watto, here with my two great friends, Dr Stuart Brigham and Dr Paul Nelson Williams. We are board-certified internists. Paul N...

Nov 4th, 2020 - Hypnale hypnale, Hypnale zara and Hypnale nepa are the three species of Hump nosed pit vipers that are implicated in human bites in Sri Lanka. H. zara and H. nepa are two endemic species to the country. The objective of the study was to characteri...

Jan 19th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back to The Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Frank Watto, here with my two great friends, Dr Stuart Brigham and Dr Paul Nelson Williams. We are board-certified internists. Paul N...

Apr 1st, 2018 - Approximately 10%-15% of human bite wounds become infected owing to multiple factors. The bacterial inoculum of human bite wounds contains as many as 100 million organisms per mL and is made up of as many as 190 different species. Many of these ar...

Jun 21st, 2007 - Action Points Explain to interested patients that a human bite is not usually life-threatening, but can be disfiguring. Note that treatment for such wounds is similar to the treatment for any potentially infected wound -- cleaning and closure, wit...

Orthopaedic Surgery Specialties Hand Surgery Hand surgery infection rates are generally low, and multiple studies have shown an infection rate of less than 1%.[13,14] Some factors associated with SSIs in hand surgery include diabetes, immunosuppre...