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Alex in
Health on Oct 5, 2006 at 1:12 am
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Don’t get your medical advice from the movies:
The standard snakebite scene in many movies shows the victim applying a tourniquet to the limb and then cutting the wound and sucking out the venom.
As Edwards and his wife, Andrea, waited for the ambulance to arrive, a good Samaritan tried to help using advice gleaned from Hollywood.
"She put a tourniquet on his arm," Andrea Edwards said. "We were on the phone with the EMT who was on his way to us, and he said to take it off."
As the Edwards learned when they arrived at Vanderbilt, the tourniquet could have cost him his hand or arm.
Why? Read on: Link
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