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504 pages, 80 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
Sect. 1. General introduction -- Historical background to marine envenomation -- International synopsis -- Australian perspectice -- Surf life saving Queensland's historical calendar -- References to chapter 1 -- Animal taxonomy -- Taxonomy for beginners -- The Injuries, their incidence and the toxins that produce them -- Fatalities from marine toxins -- Jellyfish envenomation fatalities (excluding Australia) -- Marine envenomation fatalities other than jellyfish (excluding Australia) -- Box jellyfish deaths in Australia -- Marine envenomation deaths (overall) in Australia -- Comparative figures for sharks and crocodiles.
Documentation sources of fatalities from marine toxins -- Morbidity from marine toxins -- Documentation sources of morbidity from marine toxins -- Introduction to marine toxins -- Selected marine toxins of medical interest: invertebrates -- Phylum chordata: some significant marine vertebrate toxins -- Marine wound infections -- Dedication to Dr. Les Ashdown -- Aetiology -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Clinical manifestations -- Diagnosis -- Prognosis -- Therapy -- Prevention -- Priniciples of patient care in marine envenomations and poisonings -- Diagnostic priniciples in marine envenomation -- Prevention of marine envenomations -- Principles of first aid in marine envenomation -- Flow chart for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Follow-up medical management -- Sect. 2. Cnidarians: animals with endogenous cnidae -- Introduction -- Jellyfish mechanisms -- Jellyfish anatomy and behaviour -- A Classification key for medically important jellyfish -- Anatomy of selected jellyfish of medical importance -- Class hydrozoa -- Class scyphozoa -- Class cubozoa -- Cnida structure and function -- A Novel classification system for cnidae -- Keys to cnidae and nematocysts -- Cnidarian envenomation -- The Envenomation process of cnidarians: clinical significance -- Cnidarian venoms: current understanding -- Immunology of jellyfish envenomations.
Anthozoans, hydrozoans and scyphozoans -- Introductory comments -- Class anthozoa -- True, stony or hard corals -- Sea anemones, zoanthids --Class hydrozoa -- Subclass hydroida -- Subclass siphonophora -- Class scyphozoa -- Order rhizostomeae -- Order coronatae -- Order semaeostomeae -- Cubozoans (box jellyfish) -- Toxonomic outline of the class cubozoa -- World distribution -- Common members of class cubozoa -- Significant cubozoan features -- Carybdeids -- Chirodropids (multi-tentacled box jellyfish) -- Summary of management of chironex fleckeri (and other chirodropid) stings -- Conclusion to the section on cubozoans -- International information on jellyfish stings.
Jellyfish stingings in the Mediterraean Sea -- Further international notes on jellyfish stingings -- The Indo-West Pacific region -- The Greater Atlantic region -- South Africa -- Suez Canal and the Red Sea -- Indian Ocean -- China Seas -- Cnidarian envenomation syndromes -- The Reaction of exposed body surfaces to cnidarian (and related) stings -- Dermatological aspects of jellyfish (and related) envenomations -- Sea lice -- Ophthalmological aspects of jellyfish stings -- Sect. 3. Echinoderms, molluscs and sponges.
Phylum echinodermata -- Class asteroidea (sea stars) -- Class echinoidea (sea urchins) -- Class holothurioidea (sea cucumbers -- Phylum mollusca -- Introduction -- Bivalve molluscs -- Octopus (class cephalopoda) --Blue-ringed octopus (hapalochlaena spp.) -- Cone shells -- Phylum porifera (sponges) -- Introductory biology -- Clinical aspects -- Sect. 4. Toxic (poisonous and venomous) marine vertebrates -- Ciguatera (fish poisoning) -- History -- Distribution and incidence -- Fish implicated in Australia -- Biological origin of ciguatera -- The Toxins -- Symptomatology and differential diagnosis -- Treatment -- Prevention -- Future research.
Venomous fish -- General features of venomous fish -- Class chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) -- Class osteichthyes (bony fish) -- Management of a stonefish sting and of venomous fish stings in general -- Sea snakes -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Appearance -- Envenomation -- Management -- Prevention of sea snake bite -- Sect. 5. International toxic (poisonous or venomous) marine animal occurences -- Marine stings in the gulf of Oman -- Introduction -- Cnidaria -- Mollusca -- Polychaeta -- Echinodermata -- Fish -- Sea snakes -- Conclusions -- Marine stings in portugal -- Introduction -- Venomous fish -- Cnidaria -- Sea urchins (ouricos-do-mar) -- Cone shells.
Japanese marine envenomations, and some deaths in Okinawa -- Cnidarians -- Cone shells -- Blue-ringed octopus -- Sea urchins -- Needlefish -- Sea snakes -- Stonefish -- Accidental deaths -- Sect. 6. Special considerations -- Marine antivenoms -- Availability -- Storage and shelf life of marine antivenoms -- Safe clinical usage of marine antivenom preparation -- Future research and marine antivenoms -- Immunisation against marine envenomation (vaccines) -- Scuba diving perspective -- Envenomation hazards to divers -- Special considerations for divers -- Reasearch aspects -- The International Ccnsortium for Jellyfish Stings (ICJS) -- The Importance of first-hand documentation and of clinical photography -- Public education -- International index of researchers.
Mystery syndromes possibly associated with marine envenomations -- Dermatological syndromes -- Musculoskeletal diseases -- Peripheral nervous system and spinal cord disorders -- Other central nervous system disorders -- Other syndromes -- Platypus envenomation -- The Australian platypus -- Ornithorhynchus anatinus -- Section 7. To finish -- Stop press information.
medical editors, John A. Williamson, Peter J. Fenner, Joseph W. Burnett ; biology editor, Jacqueline F. Rifkin.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [456]-487) and index.