Do hospitals just like know about all snakebites or is it part of like a special doctor training or do they just have like a snake expert doctor on staff. Do they have all the anti-venoms readily available or do you need to go to a special snake hospital.
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I was recently bitten by a snake and the nurse looking after me had never done one before (his manager there has though). He was lovely and we literally went through two pages of instructions together about the process to follow. (I don’t think they would normally show the patient it was just 3am and I was bored and interested in how all worked).
We were quite sure it wasn’t venomous so more for observation. I did ask the ambulance guy though and he said the antivenom worked on the five most common snake types so IDing the snake wasn’t as important as it used to be.
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