{"id":11261,"date":"2018-12-30T19:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/?p=11261"},"modified":"2018-12-30T19:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T19:31:28","slug":"the-hump-nosed-pit-viper-hypnale-hypnale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/2018\/12\/30\/the-hump-nosed-pit-viper-hypnale-hypnale\/","title":{"rendered":"The hump-nosed pit viper (Hypnale hypnale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reptilefact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Hump-nosed-Viper.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kumar KS, Narayanan S, Udayabhaskaran V, Thulaseedharan NK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5993036\/\"><strong>Clinical and epidemiologic profile and predictors of outcome of poisonous snake bites &#8211; an analysis of 1,500 cases from a tertiary care center in Malabar, North Kerala, India<\/strong><\/a>. <i>Int J Gen Med<\/i>. 2018;11:209-216. Published 2018 Jun 5. doi:10.2147\/IJGM.S136153<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No antidote available for its deadly venom.<\/li>\n<li>Also called the hump-nosed moccasin for its pointed and upturned snout<\/li>\n<li>A major killer endemic to the Western Ghats, a mountain range of South India, and Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li>The standard polyvalent antivenom used for the four most poisonous snakes of the region \u2014 the\u00a0Indian cobra (<em>Naja naja<\/em>), Indian krait (<em>Bangarus caeruleus<\/em>), Russell&#8217;s viper (<em>Daboia russelii<\/em>) and saw-scaled viper (<em>Echis carinatus<\/em>) \u2014 does not work on hump-nosed pit viper venom.<\/li>\n<li>Hump-nosed pit viper envenomation typically brings on acute kidney injury leading to corticoid necrosis and death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumar KS, Narayanan S, Udayabhaskaran V, Thulaseedharan NK. Clinical and epidemiologic profile and predictors of outcome of poisonous snake bites &#8211; an analysis of 1,500 cases from a tertiary care center in Malabar, North Kerala, India. Int J Gen Med. 2018;11:209-216. Published 2018 Jun 5. doi:10.2147\/IJGM.S136153 No antidote available for its deadly venom. Also called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,178],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}