Marine toxins and envenomations
Types
Marine toxins and envenomations
- Toxins
- Stingers
- Venomous fish (catfish, zebrafish, scorpion fish, stonefish)
- Cone shells
- Lionfish
- Sea urchins
- Nematocysts
- Coral reef
- Fire coral
- Jellyfish (Cnidaria)
- Portuguese man-of-war
- Sea anemones
- Phylum porifera (sponges)
- Bites
Differential Diagnosis
Water-related injuries
- Hypothermia
- Immersion pulmonary edema
- Marine toxins and envenomations
- Scuba diving emergencies
- Submersion injury (drowning and near-drowning)
Envenomations, bites and stings
- Hymenoptera stings (bees, wasps, ants)
- Mammalian bites
- Closed fist infection (Fight bite)
- Marine toxins and envenomations
- Toxins (ciguatera, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, scombroid, tetrodotoxin
- Stingers (stingray injury
- Venomous fish (catfish, zebrafish, scorpion fish, stonefish, cone shells, lionfish, sea urchins)
- Nematocysts (coral reef, fire coral, box jellyfish, sea wasp, portuguese man-of-war, sea anemones)
- Phylum porifera (sponges)
- Bites (alligator/crocodile, octopus, shark)
- Scorpion envenomation
- Snake bites
- Spider bites
Management
- See specific injury type for management
References
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