UCI Health: What to do if you see — or are bitten — by a rattlesnake
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UCI Health: What to do if you see — or are bitten — by a rattlesnake
"...Get to a hospital immediately, says Dr. Jeffrey Suchard, a UCI Health emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist.
That means your best rattlesnake-bite tools are likely already with you: your car keys and a cell phone.
“There is no intervention at the scene of a venomous snakebite that is recommended,” says Suchard.
“Your goal is to get to a hospital as soon as possible to be assessed for possible antivenom treatment.”..."
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UCI Health: What to do if you see — or are bitten — by a rattlesnake
"...Get to a hospital immediately, says Dr. Jeffrey Suchard, a UCI Health emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist.
That means your best rattlesnake-bite tools are likely already with you: your car keys and a cell phone.
“There is no intervention at the scene of a venomous snakebite that is recommended,” says Suchard.
“Your goal is to get to a hospital as soon as possible to be assessed for possible antivenom treatment.”..."
@ai6yr @rpmik Rattlesnake bites are no joke. A friend of mine was in ICU for three days and nearly lost his hand when he was injected with venom from just one fang of a rattlesnake he had just "killed."
When I kill rattlesnakes in my yard, it's usually with a shovel or a gun (my Beretta can be loaded with 22 long shot shells), and I never pick up the dead snake with my hands. Always a long handed shovel into a bucket into a disposal area very far from my house.
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@ai6yr @rpmik Rattlesnake bites are no joke. A friend of mine was in ICU for three days and nearly lost his hand when he was injected with venom from just one fang of a rattlesnake he had just "killed."
When I kill rattlesnakes in my yard, it's usually with a shovel or a gun (my Beretta can be loaded with 22 long shot shells), and I never pick up the dead snake with my hands. Always a long handed shovel into a bucket into a disposal area very far from my house.
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@zer0unplanned @rpmik @ai6yr I think I had a rattlesnake somewhere once. I won't prepare it myself. When I'm finished killing it, it's usually quite a mess. The first time I did it I chopped it into five pieces with the shovel. The most recent time I shot it twice with bird shot.
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@zer0unplanned @rpmik @ai6yr I think I had a rattlesnake somewhere once. I won't prepare it myself. When I'm finished killing it, it's usually quite a mess. The first time I did it I chopped it into five pieces with the shovel. The most recent time I shot it twice with bird shot.
