Hospital staff plead with bite victims to stop bringing snakes to emergency departments
Hospital staff plead with bite victims to stop bringing snakes to emergency departments
Hospital staff came face-to-face with one of the world's most deadly snakes after a patient brought it to the emergency department in a snap-lock lunch container.
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"We honestly don't want people interacting with snakes any more than they already have," Dr Michael said.
Translated from Doctor: "I've had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking hospital!"
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It doesn't depend on knowing the type of snake though.
Every hospital I've ever heard of have detection kits that can tell them exactly what anti-venom you need without needing to get closer to the snake that bit you.
You can bring the snake in, but that's just going to delay your care as a bunch of untrained doctors and nurses try to figure out what to do with a venomous snake in their emergency room.
There's less than 5 snake bite deaths a year, and most of those are due to delayed care, none are due to "didn't know the snake"
Might as well kill it, for revenge
moby dick thinks otherwise
Read bite victim first. Was wondering how many times that one person did that.