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On the afternoon of September 11, doctors from the Cho Ray Hospital (BV) (HCMC), said Phan Van Tam (38 years old, living in Tay Ninh), who was bitten by a king cobra over a period of more than 3 weeks. qualified treatment for discharge.
Get up to meet poisonous snakes, scared to die blue
Lying in the hospital bed, Mr. Tam was very cool, speaking clearly and actively. Mr. Tam related that in the early morning of August 19, he took two sons to the field to visit snake traps and during the rodeo, an accident occurred.
The snake trap job he worked on for a few months due to a broken leg in a car accident recently, failed to do the heavy lifting.
He said that when the accident happened, he asked his 9-year-old son to come down to see if the trap had snakes, the son reported that there was a large snake caught in the net. He ordered the snake to chase after the snake to block the way to catch it, when the snake got under the grass.
“Seeing the grass move, I knelt down and pressed to prevent it from running and grabbed the snake with both hands, unexpectedly I could only grab one right hand, my left hand slipped, so I was bitten by the right snake on my right thigh. “- said Mr. Tam.
Mr. Phan Van Tam, the patient was bitten by a king cobra when he surrounded his wife. Photo: HL
According to Mr. Tam, when he was bitten by a snake and caught it, he knew it was a poisonous snake. He was afraid of dying, so out of survival instinct he borrowed a nearby lawnmower to make the claw on his thighs bitten by a snake. When the snake was still in his hand, he begged some people to take it to the hospital, but no one took it. At that moment, fortunately a taxi driver passed and took him away.
“At that time I was also afraid of death, I asked the driver to hurry, or I would die in the car. At the hospital, they wrapped the snake’s mouth and put it in a bag, I didn’t know anything, “said Mr. Tam.
When he regained consciousness and underwent the treatment process, Mr. Tam was also in danger many times when he had arrhythmia, infection and poisoning due to necrosis from a snakebite.
Mr. Tam shared that when he was awake, he borrowed his phone to tell his family members to go to the hospital to see his face one last time, fearing that he might not be able to live because the snake’s venom was too strong.
After overcoming the crisis and stabilizing his health, Mr. Tam expressed his gratitude to the doctors and physicians who tried to cure him. He thanked the sponsors, the media, for supporting the news, helping him pay the hospital fees. After he was released from the hospital, he planned to stop catching snakes because the job was too dangerous.
2/8 cases were saved from being bitten by a king cobra
Before that, on August 19, Mr. Tam arrested the king cobra and he was bitten and taken to Cho Ray Hospital in critical condition. After that, Mr. Tam’s condition changed a lot when he fell into arrhythmia, severe infection, and wound poisoning.
Addressing directly and consulting many times about the case, Dr. Le Quoc Hung, Head of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (BV) Cho Ray, said that the patient Phan Van Tam was the eighth case bitten by a king cobra. and it is the second case that is saved after 16 years, since the establishment of the unit.
According to Dr. Hung, the king cobra is the most poisonous species on earth, causing severe nerve toxicity, a rapid advance to death, sometimes only in minutes. Many patients died before reaching the medical center or died of myocarditis, a necrosis of the entire organ that subsequently resulted in damage to multiple organs.
Dr. Hung said the case was saved thanks to 16 years of experience in treatment, early judgment of the complications that patients bitten by the king cobra may encounter, without waiting for complications to occur.
Dr. Hung recalled that 12 hours after entering the hospital, the patient was removed from the ventilator. However, from the “bone and blood” experience of treating patients in the past, doctors predict that snake venom will attack the heart.
As expected, on the second day of admission, the patient’s heart presented arrhythmia. The pacemaker equipment installed by Dr. CK2 Kieu Ngoc Dung, Deputy Director of the Arrhythmia Treatment Department of Cho Ray Hospital installed pacemakers directly on the hospital bed, it was not placed in the arrhythmia treatment unit as generally due to the high risk of death on the road.
Doctors share about the treatment process for patients bitten by the king cobra. Photo: HL
Two hours later, the patient was still tired and bored, so the doctors “went ahead” to transfer the patient to the Department of Emergency Recovery and dialysis to control the infection before the results. proof of intoxication. However, the patient is still progressing from self-respiration to lethargy and mechanical ventilation.
“On the second night, meeting the third day, we think it is difficult to hold the patient,” shared Dr. Hung.
However, while the water kept pounding, doctors from the Emergency Recovery Department in collaboration with the Department of Tropical Orthopedics and Traumatology tried to manipulate the necrotic flesh, avoid releasing toxins into the tissue, “win” as much as possible remains “raw “for the patient.
In addition, doctors must exchange plasma overnight, dialysis for patients, coordinate with high-dose broad-spectrum antibiotics, consult a hematologist to discuss ways to boost the immune system and filter out as many toxins. Necrosis as much as possible. The next morning, the patient responds to the treatments and improves.
Dr. Ngo Duc Hiep, Head of the Department of Plastic and Modeling Surgery at Cho Ray Hospital, said that up to 5% of the skin of the body has been necrotic and has been treated in a stable manner, especially preserving physiological functions. qualified for discharge from the hospital. The hip joints of the scarred patient can affect movement, requiring reexamination and follow-up later.
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Before that, like PLO It reported that, on the morning of August 19, Mr. T. collected a king cobra, which was more than 2.5 m long, weighed 4.6 kg and was bitten on the right thigh. He hugged the snake wrapped in his arm and was taken to the Tay Ninh General Hospital emergency room. Due to his critical condition, the patient was transferred to Cho Ray Hospital (HCMC). Then the patient opened his eyes, woke up, had good contact, and followed the doctor’s orders. However, after that, his condition deteriorated and the Emergency Recovery Department continued dialysis treatment to remove the toxins. During the course of treatment, the patient received a total of 20 vials of anti-snake venom serum. Knowing Mr. Tam’s plight when he surrounded the king cobra, many hearts supported him with the hospital fees. After experiencing a critical crisis, knowing the plight of a serious patient undergoing treatment at the Department of Tropical Medicine, he and his wife decided to donate 80 million VND to this patient. |
(PLO) – After being bitten by a 4.5 kg king cobra, the man goes to the hospital with the snake in his hand, asking the doctor for help.
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