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Suicide Attempt by the Intravenous Injection of Rattlesnake Venom.
Southern Medical Journal. 99(3):282-284, March 2006.
Morgan, David L. MD; Blair, Hollie W. RPH; Ramsey, Ryan P. MD
Abstract:
A 14-year-old male milked the venom from a rattlesnake and injected it with a syringe into his right antecubital vein in a suicide attempt. He immediately developed severe pain and vomiting, then hypotension, swollen lips and tongue, and coma. The injection site did not have the considerable tissue damage seen with severe rattlesnake envenomation. Critical hematological abnormalities, gastrointestinal bleeding, and hematuria developed over 24 hours. He received crotalidae polyvalent immune fab (ovine) antivenom and was discharged after 5 days without sequela. This patient's clinical findings were similar to those seen in patients bitten by rattlesnakes with rare intravenous envenomation.


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• Med Journal: Suicide by venom injection - W von Papineäu, Sun Mar 26 17:16:29 2006
• RE: Med Journal: Suicide by venom inject - zagarus42, Sun Mar 26 18:47:07 2006
• Any idea of the snake? - eunectes4, Sun Mar 26 21:02:58 2006
• Nope. $12 to find out ... more - W von Papineäu, Sun Mar 26 21:15:00 2006
• Thanks anyway Wes... - eunectes4, Sun Mar 26 21:30:56 2006
• RE: Nope. $12 to find out ... more - zagarus42, Sun Mar 26 23:37:39 2006
• Likely C. atrox - phobos, Mon Mar 27 04:45:43 2006
• from the Journel of Toxicology - jfmoore, Mon Mar 27 06:44:48 2006
• What a waste of crofab... - PatrickR, Mon Mar 27 13:44:41 2006
• RE: What a waste of crofab... - mindlessvw, Mon Mar 27 14:15:15 2006
• WOW...insensitive - eunectes4, Mon Mar 27 14:18:25 2006
• question - mindlessvw, Mon Mar 27 14:23:26 2006
• It makes me sad... - Wes, Mon Mar 27 15:47:00 2006
• RE: It makes me sad...-me too - Ryan Shackleton, Mon Mar 27 21:36:32 2006
• RE: It makes me sad...-me too - TJP, Tue Mar 28 03:14:21 2006
• RE: It makes me sad...i just recovered - mchambers, Tue Mar 28 10:06:43 2006
• RE: It makes me sad...i just recovered - bps516, Tue Mar 28 10:38:35 2006
• Why - PatrickR, Tue Mar 28 13:29:40 2006
• Because, - Wes, Tue Mar 28 14:55:16 2006
• Because - Wes, Tue Mar 28 15:12:45 2006
• RE: It makes me sad...i just recovered - texasreptiles, Tue Mar 28 21:22:23 2006
• I have the Medical Case report - phobos, Sat Apr 1 17:17:17 2006