Fisher M M, Raftos J, McGuinness R T, Dicks I T, Wong J S, Burgess K R, Sutherland S K
Med J Aust. 1981 Nov 14;2(10):525-6. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb112973.x.
This paper describes the successful use of funnel-web antivenom in two severe cases of envenomation from bites by a male funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus. Rapid resolution of the syndrome occurred in both cases. Although the first patient, a 49-year-old man, may have slowly recovered without antivenom, it is unlikely that the other patient, a three-year-old boy, would have survived without antivenom therapy. In both cases the duration of hospitalisation was dramatically reduced.
