[Pre-hospital treatment of ophidian accidents: review, update, and current problems].
Gaceta medica de Mexico · 2011-01-01 · Other / unclear
Abstract
Mythic, out-dated, ambiguous and sometimes iatrogenic procedures, still remain in pre-hospital and hospital ophidian accident treatment. Errors, omissions and ignorance make ophidian accidents appear more dangerous than they truly are, resulting in a general public contempt toward snakes. Here we present an updated review of current knowledge on pre-hospital and hospital treatment of ophidian bite incidents, including indications, recommendations and logic errors. We describe an appropriate treatment for native Mexican poisonous snakebites using fabotherapics, based on our experience. Adequate initial pre-hospital and hospital management is crucial for a successful outcome of this medical emergency. We describe the state of the art in snake bite research discussing those procedures where research is needed to implement them either by the patient, first responders, paramedics and doctors. We suggest proposals to achieve even more efficient management of fabotherapics based on support networks. Finally, we emphasize prevention as the main subject of venom bite treatment, as it is always more adequate and economic to invest in prevention than to spend on mitigation during emergency and recovery.
Abstract © the authors or publisher, via PubMed. Reuse and removal
Tags
Related articles
- Treatment of snakebite in Australia: the current evidence base and questions requiring collaborative multicentre prospective studies. (Toxicon, 2006)
- Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans. (S Afr Med J, 2023)
- Antivenom efficacy and traditional practices for Snakebite in Brazil: Where do they meet? (Toxicon, 2026)
- Using geographical information systems to identify populations in need of improved accessibility to antivenom treatment for snakebite envenoming in Costa Rica. (PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2013)
- [Risks posed by venomous animals -- accidents due to snakebite envenomation]. (Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther, 2004)
- Time delays in treatment of snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka and the need for rapid diagnostic tests. (PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2020)