Repeated snake bite for recreation: Mechanisms and implications

Snake venom use for recreational purposes has been documented earlier. Willfully subjecting oneself to repeated lethal snake bite as a source of getting relieved of stress and recreation observed in two healthy software engineers, without any underlying psychiatric ailments or comorbidities along wi...

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Autores principales: Senthilkumaran, Subramanian, Shah, Sweni, Balamurugan, Namasivayam, Menezes, Ritesh G, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24404461
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.119202
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author Senthilkumaran, Subramanian
Shah, Sweni
Balamurugan, Namasivayam
Menezes, Ritesh G
Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
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description Snake venom use for recreational purposes has been documented earlier. Willfully subjecting oneself to repeated lethal snake bite as a source of getting relieved of stress and recreation observed in two healthy software engineers, without any underlying psychiatric ailments or comorbidities along with probable mechanisms, are reported. Emergency physicians and practitioners have to be aware of novel methods of exposure to snake venom so as to recognize such cases and treat them accordingly.
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spelling pubmed-38832022014-01-08 Repeated snake bite for recreation: Mechanisms and implications Senthilkumaran, Subramanian Shah, Sweni Balamurugan, Namasivayam Menezes, Ritesh G Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci Case Report Snake venom use for recreational purposes has been documented earlier. Willfully subjecting oneself to repeated lethal snake bite as a source of getting relieved of stress and recreation observed in two healthy software engineers, without any underlying psychiatric ailments or comorbidities along with probable mechanisms, are reported. Emergency physicians and practitioners have to be aware of novel methods of exposure to snake venom so as to recognize such cases and treat them accordingly. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3883202/ /pubmed/24404461 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.119202 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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