Pitoon,

See if you can push it back inside.

Once, while road hunting for snakes, I found an Emory's Rat Snake that had been hit by a passing car. The only visible damage to the snake was that it's heart was outside of the coelomic cavity...it was dangling from the snake's underbelly.
The heart was beating perfectly and the snake seemed in decent shape, except for the cut on it's underside...and the heart issue!
I simply pushed the heart back into the coelomic cavity and kinda pinched the cut closed. I did not think it would survive the night...but it did.
I placed the snake in my quarantine room, in a simple cage with newsprint for substrate, a water dish and a hide box.
This little snake quickly went into a shed cycle. After the shed, I could see where the scar line was from the incident with the vehicle...but the wound was closed.
I kept this snake for one more shed cycle. Then, I released it back where it was captured.
This experience gave me a little faith in another road injured snake that I later encountered. This time it was a Western Midget Faded Rattlesnake (C. concolor).
The snake looked perfect other than a small cut in the side of it's neck. In fact I only noticed it because of a small speck of blood on it's back.....As soon as I saw the spot of blood I gave the snake a closer examination. That small cut in the side of the snake's neck would not have seemed so dire... Except that every time the snake exhaled...air bubbled out of the cut. When the snake inhaled...the cut would open up. I took the snake home and set it up in the same type of temporary enclosure in the quarantine room. This time I smeared a little bit of silvadene antibiotic cream on the surface of the cut. Other than that, I left the snake alone. It too healed perfectly....and was released back where it was found.
(C.concolor are now a protected a species throughout most, if not all of their range.
I am amazed at how resilient and hardy reptiles can be. Best Wishes!

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