Close Call with a King Cobra

[MDT]

Thanks frank for responding, and you confirmed what I suspected about the larger facilities. And again, I never got an arrogance thing. You bring a level of expertise that a lot of us don't have (at least I know I don't)....

Even with established protocols under the best of circumstances, significant envenomations are a cluster (just as is any "weird" event). I happened to be on duty when a guy at our zoo was pretty significantly envenomated by a Gila monster. The ED scene was ridiculous. People crowded into the treatment room to see the "bite victim". I think they thought he was gonna turn into some lizard or something. The patient was pretty sick and required intensive intervention (obviously no anti venom, but dropping blood pressure and airway compromise)...trying to gain scene control was interesting.

Anyway....though I probably won't ever keep venomous animals, I love hearing about those that do. Hopefully we can all agree that we need to maintain impeccable safety standards and everyone can stay safe.