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The 35-year-old man, a resident of Dak Lak, discovered that the snake was about 2.4 meters long at the edge of the stream and was caught and bitten on his right index finger.
He beat the snake to death, tied the wrist and entered the hospital with the body of the snake. When the patient was transferred to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City by the local hospital, it was the 12th hour after the accident, on September 20.
The body of the king cobra bit the patient and he was taken to the hospital by family members. Image: Hospital provided.
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuy Ngan, from the Department of Tropical Diseases at Cho Ray Hospital, said that through the body of a snake with the head taken by the family, doctors determined that it was a king cobra, the same snake that bit the man . Mr. Tay Ninh was released from the hospital a few days ago. The patient was infused with five vials of anti-cobra venom, plasma exchange due to complications of soft tissue necrosis of the wound muscle.
Patients also have complications of myocarditis, slow pulse, they must be supported by an external pacemaker.
On September 28, the wound where the snake was bitten was necrotic, the musculoskeletal tissue of the patient’s right index finger could not be preserved, the doctor ordered the removal of the knuckle.
The patient said she was less tired than when she was admitted to the hospital, her arm still hurts. With a difficult family, he and his wife live in the country like chopping wood, weeding and two small children, and his father-in-law has had a stroke.
The index finger of the patient bitten by a cobra should be removed. Image: Hospital provided.
In August, a man in Tay Ninh also caught a king cobra weighing around 5 kg, bit him on the thigh and wrapped many rings on his arm. He went to the emergency hospital with a wrapped snake in his hand, quickly fell into critical condition and was transferred to Cho Ray Hospital for treatment almost a month before he died.
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