Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41328212›Full record

SynthesisBulletin of the World Health Organization2025

Use of snake antivenom in the Region of the Americas: a systematic review.

Clara Guerra-Duarte, Viviane Pauline de Sousa, Gladstony de Oliveira-Sousa, Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol

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Synthesis in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Clara Guerra-DuarteDiretoria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Viviane Pauline de SousaDiretoria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Gladstony de Oliveira-SousaDepartamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Marcos Paulo Gomes MolDiretoria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the use of antivenom therapy in Methods: We systematically searched Web of Science, Scopus, Lilacs, PubMed® and Google Scholar for studies published up to 5 May 2025 that reported on the effects of antivenom treatment in humans bitten by Findings: Of 2060 articles identified, 38 met the inclusion criteria. Conclusion: Antivenom therapy remains central to the management of

Indexed as

AntiveninsBothropsSnake BitesAmericasAnimalsHumansMaleAntivenins

Identifiers

PMID41328212
PMCPMC12665276

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