Estudio del manejo de serpientes venenosas y actuación en caso de mordedura

Abstract

When venomous snakes are keep in captivity, as a pet or spice as a part of collections from zoo, some infrastructure and facilities for ensuring the people safety must be available and the staff must know how to use them. Many devices for the snakes handling have been marketed: personal protection equipment (glasses, gloves, shoes, gaiter), snake fastening devices (hooks, restlessness tubes, transport bags) or feeding gadgets (tweezers, mouth openers, feeding tubes). When somebody is bitten, hospital emergency service must be requested as soon as possible and so the specific antivenom serum will be administered. The first aid would consist on keeping the bitten individual at ease and at rest, cleaning the bite injury and using a venom suction pump.