Antivenom dosing in 35 patients with severe brown snake (Pseudonaja) envenoming in Western Australia over 10 years.

Objective: To investigate the doses of antivenom administered to adult patients with severe brown snake envenoming.

Design And Setting: Review of charts from Western Australian adult teaching hospitals, December 1991 to December 2001.

Patients: 35 patients with severe brown snake envenoming, defined prospectively as afibrinogenaemia (< 0.