Medical Emergencies Caused by Aquatic Animals: A Zoological and Clinical Guide

123 Pages·2016·13.67 MB·English

by  Vidal Haddad Jr (auth.)

Vidal Haddad Jr.
Medical Emergencies
Caused by
Aquatic Animals
A Zoological
and Clinical Guide
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Medical Emergencies Caused
by Aquatic Animals

Vidal Haddad Jr.
Medical Emergencies
Caused by Aquatic
Animals
A Zoological and Clinical Guide
Vidal Haddad Jr.
Botucatu School of Medicine
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Botucatu , São Paulo , Brazil
ISBN 978-3-319-20287-7 ISBN 978-3-319-20288-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20288-4
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Dedicated to Adriana, Lorenzo, and Ariadne,
gifts that the life has given me.

Foreword
Hubiera sido, pues, excelente ocasión para practicar la obra de caridad más propia
de nuestro tiempo: no publicar libros superfl uos.
Ortega y Gasset
Over the past 22 years, the gods have given me the privilege of enjoying
the friendship and companionship of two unique humans beings Rubens
Brando, the “Rubão,” and Vidal Haddad Jr. Both, each in his own way, with
the nobility of character and sovereignty purposes that the ancient Greeks
defi ned well with the word A rete. Rubão and Vidal: scientists, aristocrats of
the spirit.
Rubens, with his Indians and his inordinate passion for snakes, left us
long ago.
Vidal, with his tenacity and dedication, now rewards us with this text.
I participated in his project from the early stages, when about 20 years ago,
he headed up to the Santa Casa de Ubatuba to ask the staff of that hospital for
the necessary collaboration to develop clinical observations of patients
injured by marine animals.
The doctor Hector P. Froes, in the 1930s, in Bahia State, was the last
Brazilian author to be internationally recognized for his observations on the
venomous fi sh of Brazil.
The track was redone.
The book presented here, with magnifi cent iconographic material, por-
trays an experience that was lived with passion, in the day-to-day fi eld work,
on trips, in contact with patients, and in visits to places of where incidents
occurred. It is up to the reader judge it.
This will certainly not be a superfl uous book.
João Luiz Cardoso
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Acknowledgements
João Luiz Costa Cardoso
the greatest contributor and supporter of this work
“But who really knows, is not talking around …
Remains quiet, waiting to be asked and generally
solves the problem, since the silence is part of
his wisdom.”
T o my parents, Vidal and Maria Stella, my brothers William and Cristiane,
my brothers-in-law Margareth and Paulo Cezar, and to my nephews
Manoel, Luzinete, and Julio Linuesa Peres
Drs. Ricardo Cortes and Afrânio Borsatto
(Santa Casa de Ubatuba, São Paulo State)
Prof. Dr. Edmundo Ferraz Nonato, i n memoriam
(Oceanographic Institute of São Paulo)
Dra. Neuza Lima Dillon, i n memoriam , and colleagues of the Department
of Dermatology, FMB-UNESP
Prof. Dr. Fabio Lang da Silveira and Prof. André Carrara Morandini
(Zoology, IB-USP)
Prof. Dr. Juan Pedro Lonza Joustra
(Iquique, Chile)
Prof. Itamar Alves Martins
(UNITAU, Taubaté, São Paulo)
Prof. Álvaro Esteves Migotto
(Centro de Biologia Marinha, USP, São Sebastião town)
P rof. Ivan Sazima (Unicamp, Department of Zoology) and Prof. Otto
Bismarck Fazzano Gadig (Universidade Estadual Paulista, SP)
Prof. Nélson Oliveira Henrique (Orthopedics and Traumatology,
University Hospital Getulio Vargas, Manaus, Amazonas) and Dr. Anoar
Samad (Urology Services of the Portuguese Benefi cent Society of Manaus
and Adventist Hospital Manaus)
Dra. Monica Lopes-Ferreira
(Immunopathology Laboratory, Butantan Institute of São Paulo)
For the collaboration and conjunct works
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