Plasma fresco congelado associado ao soro antiofídico no tratamento de cães intoxicados experimentalmente pelo veneno da serpente Crotalus durissus terrificus

Abstract

Accidents ofidic cart a relevant medical problem in our country due to the high toxicity and lethality of the poisons. About 8% of the accidents they are related to the gender Crotalus being in second place in the number of accidents and in first in relation to the death index. The study had as objective evaluates and to compare the effectiveness of the therapy of the intoxication for poison crotalic in dogs, with use of antiophidic serum isolated or associated the frozen plasma. The dogs were divided in two groups being: Group VS: animals inoculated with poison crotalic and treaties with antiophidic serum bothropic-crotalic; Group VSP: animals inoculated with poison crotalic, treaties with antiophidic serum and plasma frozen fresh. The animals were submitted the clinical evaluation and laboratorial. It was observed us of the two groups edema in the place of inoculation of the poison and mitigation with more precocious recovery in the animals of the group VSP, presence of reflex pupillary the light, dilated pupils, lameness, flaccid paralysis of the musculature, mandibular ptose, increase of the breathing frequency, decrease in the erythrocyte number, hemoglobin and hematocrit, decrease in the number of lymphocytes, increase in the neutrophil number, leukocytes, sanguine incoagulability and increase in the time of protrombina and partial tromboplastina activated with more precocious recovery in the animals of the group VSP. In conclusion the dose of poison crotalic used in the experimental intoxication of dogs was capable to produce alterations in the clinical parameters, laboratorial and hematological with benefits mainly in the recovery of the mitigation and decrease of the member edema in the animals that received the antiophidic serum associated to the frozen fresh plasma when compared to the animals that received only the antiophidic serum.