Boa constrictor in the Emergency Room 🐍 Foreign Body Friday: you arrive on scene of a residential home and find a pet snake constricting around the owners hand. 1. What is the FIRST THING you would do when you arrive at the patient? 2. The patient tells you the snake has been squeezing for 5 minutes and their hand is starting to feel numb and the pressure is “very painful”. Would you try to get the snake to unlach and stop constricting on scene, or go straight to the hospital?