Mark LittleSummaryCountry: Australia Publications
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First aid for jellyfish stings: do we really know what we are doing?Mark Little
Department of Emergency Medicine, Caboolture Hospital, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
Emerg Med Australas 20:78-80. 2008..There is more evidence supporting the use of hot water. More research is required to simplify first aid for jellyfish stings...
Intracerebral hemorrhage and death after envenoming by the jellyfish Carukia barnesiPeter Pereira
Department of Emergency Medicine, Cairns Base Hospital, Australia
Clin Toxicol (Phila) 48:390-2. 2010..Irukandji syndrome is because of envenoming by a number of small jellyfish. It results in a delayed onset of generalized pain, sweating hypertension, and tachycardia. There is no antivenom...
The use of pressure immobilization bandages in the first aid management of cubozoan envenomingsJamie Seymour
Department of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, McGregor Road, Cairns 4878, Australia
Toxicon 40:1503-5. 2002....
Jellyfish envenoming syndromes: unknown toxic mechanisms and unproven therapiesPaul M Bailey
Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Med J Aust 178:34-7. 2003..Current understanding of jellyfish venom activity is very limited, and many treatments are unproven and based on anecdote...
Current use of Australian snake antivenoms and frequency of immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions and anaphylaxisGeoffrey K Isbister
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT
Med J Aust 188:473-6. 2008..To investigate current use of Australian snake antivenoms and the frequency and severity of immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions...
Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes 2006Mark Little
Med J Aust 187:372; author reply 372. 2007
High rate of immediate systemic hypersensitivity reactions to tiger snake antivenomGeoffrey K Isbister
Med J Aust 184:419-20.. 2006
Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndromeMark Little
Med J Aust 180:482-3; author reply 483-4. 2004
Another cause of "Irukandji stingings"Mark Little
Emergency Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
Med J Aust 179:654. 2003
Severity of Irukandji syndrome and nematocyst identification from skin scrapingsTruc T Huynh
Emergency Department, Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia
Med J Aust 178:38-41. 2003..Our finding of a cnidome not consistent with Carukia barnesi in the setting of Irukandji syndrome makes it possible that other species of jellyfish may also cause this syndrome...
Temperature effects on box jellyfish venom: a possible treatment for envenomed patients?Teresa J Carrette
Tropical Biology, James Cook University Cairns Campus, Cairns, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 177:654-5. 2002..To determine the effect of temperature on lethality of venom from Chironex fleckeri (the potentially fatal box jellyfish)...
Rapid opioid detoxification in AustraliaGary Hulse
Acad Emerg Med 9:960. 2002
Is there a role for the use of pressure immobilization bandages in the treatment of jellyfish envenomation in Australia?Mark Little
Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
Emerg Med (Fremantle) 14:171-4. 2002....
