[Intensive therapy in bites of poisonous snakes]

The paper reviews the use of complex intensive care in 24 patients with poisonous snake bites, aged 12 to 63 years. Complex intensive care comprised conservative and surgical methods of therapy, including extracorporeal detoxicating techniques (hemosorption and plasmapheresis). All the patients have been discharged on recovery. The given scheme of therapy should be adjusted in each individual case depending on the individual peculiarities and the course of the disease.