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. 2014 Feb 26;9(2):e90198. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090198

Table 1. The scoring system adopted to grade the severity of envenoming and the severity of abdominal pain.

Description of the clinical manifestation category Severity score
Abdominal pain
Occurs within 6 hours of bite 1
Onset within 30 minutes of bite 0.5
Lasting more than 1 hour 0.5
Bearable with difficulty/Unbearable 0.5
Local envenoming
Presence of local swelling 1
Swelling involving more than half the limb 1
Necrosis/Gangrene/Compartment syndrome 1
Coagulopathy
On admission 20WBCT prolonged (>20 min) 1
Subsequent 20WBCTs prolonged (repeated 6 hourly, if any) 1
Spontaneous bleeding (local bleeding/gum bleeding/epistaxis/subconjunctival haemorrhage 1
Severe bleeding (gasterointestinal bleeding/haematuria) 1
Neuromuscular paralysis
Ptosis/Opthalmoplegia 1
Neck/limb muscle weakness 1
Respiratory paralysis 1
Renal dysfunction
Blood urea >13 mmol/l 1
Oliguria with high blood urea nitrogen/high serum K+ 1
Renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy 1
Cardiovascular dysfunction
Systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg and signs of early circulatory collapse 1
Severe circulatory collapse (shock)/arrhythmias 1
Acute myocardial infarction/heart failure 1