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Failure of electric shock treatment for rattlesnake envenomation
1Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
The use of high-voltage electric shock therapy for the treatment of snake venom poisoning has recently gained popularity in the United States. We present a case that documents the dangerous, ineffective application of electric shock to the face of a patient envenomated by a Great Basin rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis lutosus). The successful use of antivenin in this critically ill, antivenin-allergic patient is described.