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Karley Chiodo Health Care Professions Essay: Venom One January 2015 The health care profession I chose to research is the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Response Program, also known as the Venom One team. The Venom One team is an elite group of specially trained firefighters/paramedics that is part of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. They are the only emergency response team specializing in antivenom treatment, and they run the only anti-venom bank open for public use in the United States. They once had a documentary series on the channel Animal Planet called Swamp Wars. General employees of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue need the following forms of education: State of Florida Firefighter-11 Certification, State of Florida Paramedic (EMT-P) Certification, and a high school diploma or GED. Favoritism is expressed towards alumni of the …show more content…

Additionally, the Venom One team has training in response, management, and treatment of envenomation. The annual salary of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue employees is in the range of $39,436-$68,882. A usual work day for the Venom One team would entail capturing dangerous fauna in Miami-Dade County and delivering antivenom in time to save a life from the effects of an envenomation. Antivenom is an antidote for venom that counters a specific venom or venom type. It is made to treat the venom of snakes, arachnids, scorpions, and poisonous amphibians. Also called antivenin, it is effective on the majority of recipients, but only if it is administered within a small window of opportunity before the venom does too much damage to or outright kills the victim. Antivenom’s manufacturing is similar to a vaccination. A vertebrate,

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