What should one do if bitten, say, by a pit-viper? Perhaps make use of a proprietary snakebite venom suction device? Maybe not such a good idea, according to recent research from Professor Sean P. Bush, MD, FACEP, (pictured right, holding a sea-snake) of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Medical […]
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Snakebit, Electrified, and Doubly Surprised
The self-inflicted snake/electroshock saga of patient X [pictured below] turns out, 21 years after it entered the public record, to have an earlier chapter that never, until this moment, made it into print. That’s patient X, the former US marine who suffered a bite from his pet rattlesnake. Patient X, the man who immediately after […]
Physical therapy: When the cobra spits
Physical therapy, as a field, gains a bit of danger-flecked glamor from this new study — specifically from the fact that one of the cobra-comprehending co-authors is in a university department of physical therapy. The study is: “Target tracking during venom ‘spitting’ by cobras,” Guido Westhoff, Melissa Boetig, Horst Bleckmann and Bruce A. Young, Journal […]