Prediction of Compartment Syndrome after Protobothrops mucrosquamatus Snakebite by Diastolic Retrograde Arterial Flow: A Case Report

Peripheral Nerve Block to Treat Pain Caused by Daboia palaestinae Envenomation

Snakebite pain can be challenging to control. We describe our experience managing intolerable pain after conventional treatment failed. A 35-year-old man, presented after a viper snakebite, suffering from intolerable pain in the affected extremity. He had no significant past medical history. All attempts to control the pain conventionally were unsuccessful. Treatment with a supraclavicular nerve block resulted in immediate relief. After the block receded, only a dull pain remained, which later disappeared without recurrence. This experience illustrates the need for personalized pain treatment to avoid subsequent complications.

Editorial for the Special Issue "Emergency Medicine and Emergency Room Medical Issues"

Together with the "law of entropy", two of the main reasons for the risk of burnout among physicians who work in emergency departments around the world are the variety of clinical issues presented by patients and the absence of guidelines for managing most of them [...].