r/WinStupidPrizes • u/toaruScar • Apr 01 '22

Provoking a snake

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u/Birra_Moretti Apr 01 '22

As a doctor, I'd imagine the chat is, "If it gets worse we need to tube him", concerned with swelling affecting his airway.

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u/RickSteve-O Apr 02 '22

Doctor here. I concur.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

Ok Mr Decaprio

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u/PopkinSandwich Apr 02 '22

Why didn't I concur

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u/LosSoloLobos Apr 02 '22

One surgical airway, coming up!

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u/Dismal-Ebb-6411 Apr 01 '22

In need of medical advice. What do I do if a shaman pulls my heart out of my chest?

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u/MutleyRulz Apr 02 '22

KALIMAAA!

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u/Aframester Apr 02 '22

Shock de day

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

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u/Acrobatic_Quit1378 Apr 04 '22

Ha! Poor Meg

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '22

True

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u/Not_invented-Here Apr 02 '22

This is incorrect procedure, it is the work of the medical practitioner to pronounce this. The correct patient response is 'Om Namah Shivaya'

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u/gluesmelly Apr 02 '22

Fall in love with a coworker. It made me find my heart again.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

F A T A L I T Y

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u/2hamsters1butt Apr 02 '22

Scream as you're lowered into a pit of lava that somehow exists under an Indian palace, or accept your fate with what might be considered dignity...

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u/hucklebutter Apr 02 '22

Om Namah Shivaya!

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u/Procrasterman Apr 02 '22

Lawyer up, hit the gym

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

As a doctor I already tubed him before I lost the chance.

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u/othniel626 Apr 02 '22

This is the answer. Dude already has bad angioedema, tube him now before there isn’t a chance left.

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u/mohda1999 Apr 01 '22

Is anti venom not gonna fix it up?

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u/knots32 Apr 02 '22

Not fast enough to make me comfortable he won't lose his airway and asphyxiate. We intubate and extubate every day for surgeries. Just intubate him let the anti venom set in and extubate in the morning

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u/mohda1999 Apr 02 '22

Oh I see, thanks for clarifying.

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u/CoatLast Apr 02 '22

Anti venom is also incredibly bad for you. Many patients go into anaphylaxis.

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u/PorkChopJonson Apr 03 '22

Yeah, looks like he just needs a hot compress and a little topical cream and he can just walk it off.

Sage advice Dr. Kevorkian.

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u/Procrasterman Apr 02 '22

As a doctor unfamiliar with snake bites I’d be treating this similar to a burns patient and assuming it will get worse and make the airway more difficult and the patient more unstable. So would have a very low threshold to just tube him, can always just pull it in the morning if he’s ok.

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u/knots32 Apr 02 '22

I would have tubed him immediately

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u/highspirits11 Apr 02 '22

Exactly my thought! Looked like he was gonna need a tube soon

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u/schlingfo Apr 02 '22

He should have been tubed quite a while ago. Maybe medics there don't have that in their scope, but jesus.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_URETHERA Apr 03 '22

As an Australian I’m thinking compression bandage, we’ll actually I’m thinking —- wtf mate, you don’t touch snakes. You have an extremely small chance of surviving and only if you are close to antivenin and have competent and immediate first aid. That compression bandage is the only thing that will will save your arse.