Snake bites can cause severe morbidity and mortality. Patient admissions to emergency services due to snake bites increase in especially rural areas of our country and in summer months. In this compilation, the current knowledge about snake species living in our country, discrimination of poisonous snakes and non-venomous snakes, and approaches to snake bites has been reviewed.
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