World practices of non-medical help for snakebites: a scoping review
Improper help-seeking behaviour and helping practices constitute a global health threat with disproportionately higher vulnerability of inhabitants of resource-limited regions of the world. Further research and widespread public awareness campaigns communicating the guidelines-recommended evidence-based methods of first aid response to snakebites are urgently needed.
Authors
- Adhish Gautam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6900-717X)
- Alexei Birkun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2789-9760)
Institutions
- Government of Himachal Pradesh (IN)
- Crimea State Medical University named after S. I. Georgievsky (UA)
- V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (UA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Published
- 2025-11-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf131
- Primary Topic
- Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00