1y ago

Hospital staff plead with bite victims to stop bringing snakes to emergency departments

Venomous snake brought into hospital in lunchbox prompts plea from doctors — 'please don't do this'

1y ago

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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!"
If my life depends on you knowing precisely what sort of snake has bitten me and whether it was venomous or not, I'm bringing the fucking snake, ok
- 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"
  
  I'm bringing the fucking snake, ok
Read bite victim first. Was wondering how many times that one person did that.

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