@article{Subroto_Lismayanti_2017, place={Bandung, Indonesia}, title={Snake-Bite with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) and Stage II Hypertension}, volume={1}, url={https://journal.maranatha.edu/index.php/jmh/article/view/544}, DOI={10.28932/jmh.v1i5.544}, abstractNote={Snake-bite is an important medical emergency case and caused of many hospital<br />admission especially in the rural area, forests, plantations and swamps. Despite its importance,<br />there have been fewer proper data of snake-bite incidence in Indonesia. World Health<br />Organization estimate that at least 421,000 envenomings and 20,000 deaths from snakebites<br />occur each year, especially in South and South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The authors<br />report a case of a 76-year-old man came to Hasan Sadikin Hospital with chief complaint wound<br />in his right hand and right forearm from snake-bite. Snake-bites can cause DIC because the<br />venom activates the coagulation system and cause fibrinolysis which occurs in less than 24<br />hours. Laboratory results, we found abnormalities such as anemia, thrombocytopenia,<br />hypofibrinogenemia, and increased levels of D-dimer. Patients were treated for 8 days and then<br />allowed to go home. Snake-bite is an occupational disease of farmers, plantation workers,<br />herdsmen, fishermen, other. Snake bite cases require prompt and comprehensive management<br />so as to minimize the possibility of disability and death.<br />Keywords: snake bite, DIC, hypertension}, number={5}, journal={Journal of Medicine and Health}, author={Subroto, Hendra and Lismayanti, Leni}, year={2017}, month={Feb.} }