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How do you treat venomous bites from snakes in North America?
Everything I have found was the "Keep calm and call for help" and "Don't suck the venom out or apply a tourniquet." Frankly, almost useless.
In Australia they wrap the entire limb with an ACE bandage but not so tightly to impede blood flow and then use an improvised splint to keep that limb immobile, greatly slowly down the spread. However this works because Australian snake venom are neurotoxins, that move fast that can you take out in less than 12 hours. Whereas this method with slow acting hemotoxic venom (North American snakes) you're more liable to lose a limb, from my impression.
Everything I have found was the "Keep calm and call for help" and "Don't suck the venom out or apply a tourniquet." Frankly, almost useless.
In Australia they wrap the entire limb with an ACE bandage but not so tightly to impede blood flow and then use an improvised splint to keep that limb immobile, greatly slowly down the spread. However this works because Australian snake venom are neurotoxins, that move fast that can you take out in less than 12 hours. Whereas this method with slow acting hemotoxic venom (North American snakes) you're more liable to lose a limb, from my impression.
