Sean Bush
Sean Paul Bush (born February 11, 1966) is an American emergency physician, researcher, author, and presenter on the topics of venomous bites and stings. He is on the Board of Directors for the North American Society for Toxinology (NAST) and organizers for Venom Week[1]. Bush is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, International Society of Toxicology, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and Wilderness Medical Society.
Education
Bush received his B.S. from Texas A&M University in 1988 and his Doctorate of Medicine from Texas A&M University College of Medicine in 1992. He completed his residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Southern California. Upon completion of his residency in 1995, Bush became board certified in emergency medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1996.
Career
From 1995 to 2013, Bush served on the faculty at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California as an emergency physician and professor at the university.[2] During his time at Loma Linda, Bush received multiple awards including a Research Training Award[3] (1999), a Hultgren Award[3] (2001) a Certificate of Appreciation from the White House Medical Unit (2002) for his advice on snakebite treatment protocols for President Bush, his family and staff, and a Wilderness Research Society Research Training Award[3] (2005).
In 2013, Bush moved his family to North Carolina so he could continue his research and to study copperhead snakebites. From 2013 to 2018, Bush was a Professor at East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina. ECU granted Bush tenure in 2015. He currently presides on the Data Safety Monitoring Board evaluating a drug for snakebite and COVID-19.[4] He continues to work toward advancing the field of “Envenomation Medicine,” a focus he founded, and his pursuit of snakebite research, education and prevention[5]. He has over 100 peer-reviewed, scientific publications and medical textbook chapters, including in Annals of Emergency Medicine[6], BMC Emergency Medicine[7], Clinical Toxicology[8], Frontiers in Immunology[9], and Wilderness & Environmental Medicine[10][11] and has also appeared in numerous television series including Venom ER, aired by the BBC and Animal Planet.[12] . From 2012 to the present, Bush helped to found and serves on the Board of Directors for the North American Society of Toxinology (NAST) and organizers of Venom Week Symposia.
Bush currently consults for the World Health Organization. WHO says snakebites are a "neglected public health issue in many tropical and subtropical countries",[13] and in 2017, WHO categorized snakebite envenomation as a Neglected Tropical Disease (Category A).
Snakebite Incident
While filming Venom ER, Bush’s son Jude, age 2, was bit by a baby rattlesnake while playing with a neighbor in her backyard.[14] Having seen his father capture snakes on numerous occasions his son picked up the snake because he "wanted to put it in a cage for dad" when he was bitten on his hand. Bush’s wife, A’me, called 911 and Jude was sent via emergency helicopter to Loma Linda UMC where Bush was working and filming at the time.
Jude made a full recovery but required 16 vials of CroFab antivenom.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Medical Publications
- Lavonas, EJ; Ruha, AM; Banner, W; Bebarta, V; Bernstein, JN; Bush, SP; et al. (2011). "Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop". BMC Emergency Medicine. 3 (11:2): 1–15. doi:10.1186/1471-227X-11-2. PMC 3042971. PMID 21291549.
- Bush, SP; Ruha, AM; Seifert, SA; et al. (2015). "Comparison of F(ab')2 versus Fab antivenom for pit viper envenomation: A prospective, blinded, multicenter, randomized clinical trial". Clinical Toxicology. 53 (1): 37–45. doi:10.3109/15563650.2014.974263. PMC 4364250. PMID 25361165.
- Kanaan, NC; Ray, J; Stewart, M; Russell, KW; Fuller, M; Bush, SP; et al. (2015). "Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Pitviper Envenomations in the United States and Canada". Wilderness Environmental Medicine. 26 (4): 472–87. doi:10.1016/j.wem.2015.05.007. PMID 26433731.
- Mullins, ME; Gerardo, CJ; Bush, SP; et al. (2018). "Adverse Events in the Efficacy of Crotalidae Polyvalent Immune Fab Antivenom vs Placebo in Recovery from Copperhead Snakebite Trial". Southern Medical Journal. 111 (12): 716–720. doi:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000902. PMID 30512122.
- Dart, RC; Bush, SP; Heard, K; et al. (2019). "The Efficacy of Antivenin Latrodectus (Black Widow) Equine Immune F(ab')2 Versus Placebo in the Treatment of Latrodectism: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Trial". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 74 (3): 439–449. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.02.007. PMID 30926190.
- Theophanous, RG; Vissoci, JRN; Bush, SP; et al. (2019). "Validity and reliability of telephone administration of the patient-specific functional scale for the assessment of recovery from snakebite envenomation". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 13 (12). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007935. PMC 6934321 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 31834923. - Freiermuth, CE; Lavonas, EJ; Bush, SP; et al. (2019). "Antivenom Treatment Is Associated with Fewer Patients using Opiods after Copperhead Envenomation". Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health. 20 (3): 497–505. doi:10.5811/westjem.2019.3.42693. PMC 6526891 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 31123552. - Anderson, VE; Gerardo, CJ; Rapp-Olsson, M; Bush, SP; et al. (2019). "Early administration of Fab antivenom resulted in faster limb recovery in copperhead snake envenomation patients". Clinical Toxicology. 57 (1): 25–30. doi:10.1080/15563650.2018.1491982. PMID 30175628.
- Bush, SP; Lavonas, EJ (2019). "Copperhead and Cottonmouth Envenomation". eMedicine Journal.
- Lavonas, EJ; Burnham, RI; Bush, SP; et al. (2020). "Recovery from Copperhead Snake Envenomation: Role of Age, Sex, Bite Location, Severity, and Treatment". Journal of Medical Toxicology. 16 (1): 17–23. doi:10.1007/s13181-019-00733-y. PMID 31482319.
- Bush, SP; Smith, JC; Greene, S (2020). "Widow Spider Envenomation". eMedicine Journal.
- Greene, S; Bush, SP (2020). "Snakebite". eMedicine Journal.
- Knudsen, C; Jurgensen, JA; Fons, S; Haack, A; Friis, R; Dam, S; Bush, SP; et al. (2021). "Snakebite Envenoming Diagnosis and Diagnostics". Frontiers in Immunology. 28 (12). doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.661457. PMC 8113877 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33995385 Check|pmid=value (help).
Selected Filmography
- Venom ER, (10-Episode Series), BBC, Programme 1
- Untold Stories of the ER - Too Close to Home (AKA Snakebite Son), The Learning Channel
- I Was Bitten, (Series), Discovery Channel and Animal Planet
- Dr. Bite (AKA Miracle Man), Animal Planet
- Snake Underworld, National Geographic Wild Channel, 2011
- Venom: Nature's Killer, PBS-NOVA 2011
- Nightmares of Nature BBC, 2012
- The Snake Doctor, for UNC-TV:Life Changing television - Science, 2015
References
- ↑ "North American Society of Toxinology". Venom Week. 18 May 2004. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- ↑ "Say no to uncontrollable bleeding". Los Angeles Times. 18 May 2004.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Research Training Award". Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
- ↑ "An ER doctor's search for a snakebite drug might lead to a COVID-19 treatment". Los Angeles Times. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ↑ Bush, S. P.; Ruha, A. M.; Seifert, S. A.; Morgan, D. L.; Lewis, B. J.; Arnold, T. C.; Clark, R. F.; Meggs, W. J.; Toschlog, E. A.; Borron, S. W.; Figge, G. R.; Sollee, D. R.; Shirazi, F. M.; Wolk, R.; De Chazal, I.; Quan, D.; García-Ubbelohde, W.; Alagón, A.; Gerkin, R. D.; Boyer, L. V. (2014). "Comparison of F(ab')2 versus Fab antivenom for pit viper envenomation: a prospective, blinded, multicenter, randomized clinical trial". Clinical Toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.). 53 (1): 37–45. doi:10.3109/15563650.2014.974263. PMC 4364250. PMID 25361165.
- ↑ Dart, RC; Bush, SP; Heard, K; et al. (2019). "The Efficacy of Antivenin Latrodectus (Black Widow) Equine Immune F(ab')2 Versus Placebo in the Treatment of Latrodectism: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Trial". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 74 (3): 439–449. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.02.007. PMID 30926190.
- ↑ Lavonas, EJ; Ruha, AM; Banner, W; Bebarta, V; Bernstein, JN; Bush, SP; Kerns, WP 2nd (2011). "Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop" (PDF). BMC Emergency Medicine. 3 (11:2): 1–15. doi:10.1186/1471-227X-11-2. PMID 21291549.
- ↑ Offerman, SR; Barry, JD; Richardson, WH; Tong, T; Tanen, D; Bush, SP; Clark, RF (2009). "Subcutaneous Crotaline Fab antivenom for the treatment of rattlesnake envenomation in a porcine model". Clinical Toxicology. 47 (1): 61–68. doi:10.1080/15563650701750613. PMID 19153852.
- ↑ Knudsen, C; Jurgensen, JA; Fons, S; Haack, A; Friis, R; Dam, S; Bush, SP; et al. (2021). "Snakebite Envenoming Diagnosis and Diagnostics". Frontiers in Immunology. 28 (12). doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.661457. PMC 8113877 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33995385 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Kanaan, NC; Ray, J; Stewart, M; Russell, KW; Fuller, M; Bush, SP; Caravati, EM; Cardwell, MD; Norris, RL; Weinstein, SA (2015). "Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Pitviper Envenomations in the United States and Canada". Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 26 (4): 472–87. doi:10.1016/j/wem/2015.05.007. PMID 26433731.
- ↑ Bush, SP; Mooy, GG; Phan, TH (2014). "Priapism after western black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) envenomation". Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 25 (1): 80–1. doi:10.1016/j/wem/2013.10.008. PMID 24412661.
- ↑ "Venom ER". TV Guide.
- ↑ "Snake antivenoms: Fact sheet N°337". World Health Organization. February 2015. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "TV 'venom' doctor finds son, 2, is snakebite patient". Times Argus.
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