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This page is your entry to the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center's monthly newsletter on all things envenomation-related!
News From The Pit aims to stimulate conversation, spread awareness, and discuss challenges with everything from avoiding snake encounters to clinically managing a life-threatening envenomation.
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Educational Resources
- January - News From the Dog House Edition
- February - Rattlesnake Bite Hazard for Migrants Crossing US Mexico Border
- March - Rattlesnake Season is Here--A Timeline and Tips
- April - Coagulation laboratory studies after rattlesnake bite-what you see may not be what your patients have!
- May - The Controversial History of Pressure Bandage Immobilization and Rattlesnake Envenomation
- June- Don't Try This at Home
- July - New Universal Antivenom! But does it work on the venom proteome at your home?
- August - Looks Are Deceiving: Compartment Syndrome and Fasciotomy
- September -Myokymia After Rattlesnake Bites
- October - Venom-Induced Anemia: The Case of the Missing Red Blood Cell
- January - Spilling The Tea on the 7 T's
- February - Cut and Suck: Good for Limes but Bad for Snake Bites
- March - Icing Out Cryotherapy
- April - Are You Ready to Spring into Action this Snake Season?
- May - The Notorious "Mohave Green" Rattlesnake
- June - Down with the Serum Sickness
- July - No Snake, No Bite. Rattlesnake Prevention As An Overlooked Aspect of Public Safety
- August - No Entry, No Snake-Rattlesnake Fencing as Physical Prevention
- September - Guest Interview: Deputy Chief Greg VanAlstine (Santa Rita Fire District's Snake Removal Service)
- October - As Temperatures Cool, Rattlesnake Activity Heats Up: Fall Safety Tips
- Special Edition - Tales From the Pit: The Ones You Don't See Coming
- December - Snake Pills...or Snake Oil?
- January - Rattlesnake Bites During Breastfeeding
- February - sPLA2 Inhibition for the Treatment of Snakebite Envenoming
- March - Venomics: Cracking the Code
- April - Don't Get Easily Rattled This Snake Season
- May - Everyone Wins with TEG
- June - How Much Does It Cost to be Bitten by a Rattlesnake
- July - Thromboelastography (TEG) and Snakebites
- August - Rattlesnake Venom Variation: What is it and why does it matter?
- September - Don't Be Rattled by Venomous Snake Identification
- October - Watt's Up with Electrotherapy in Snake Envenomation
- November - History of Pitviper Antivenom in the United States
- December - Shooting Blanks: Dry Bites in Arizona
- January - Bleeding Out (hemotoxicity from rattlesnake venom)
- February - The Things We Do For Blood (management of bleeding in rattlesnake envenomations)
- March - Keeping Thin (antiplatelets and anticoagulants in rattlesnake envenomation)
- April - Platelets and Pain (NSAIDs in rattlesnake envenomation)
- May - Bothrops lanceolatus (the snake that literally gives you a heart attack)
- June - It's in the Blood: DIC and VICC
- July - Thick and Thin (treatment of thrombosis in snake envenomation)
- August - Platelets and Fibrinogen
- September - Antivenom Index
- October - Rattlesnake Bites During Pregnancy
- November - Not a Tall Tale, Just a Long Tale
- December - Better Late Than Never