wilderness snakebite survival
Posted: April 4th, 2012, 4:16 pm
Now here is something I know nothing about (other than Google) so perhaps a forum discussion can yeild some answers. I have a snake bite kit.... the kind that has some suction thingy where you suck the venom out. Seems these kits are readily available but yet I keep hearing never to suck the venom out as this is actually ineffective.
here is a good reference article... http://www.wildbackpacker.com/wildernes ... nake-bite/ Great article, but really doesn't cover what to do if you can't get help.
So my question what to do is based on two wilderness scenarios...
1) where you are waiting for the SAR team to arrive
2) where there is no possible communication to 911 or other....
and of course...
3) prevention techniques
I'm obviously concerned about scenario #2, it would be great if we could focus on that. Last but not least, we could talk about all poisonous snakes but lets focus primarily on Rattlers since that is what we have in Oregon. (if we have more, do tell.... )
*edit minor spelling error.... doh!
here is a good reference article... http://www.wildbackpacker.com/wildernes ... nake-bite/ Great article, but really doesn't cover what to do if you can't get help.
So my question what to do is based on two wilderness scenarios...
1) where you are waiting for the SAR team to arrive
2) where there is no possible communication to 911 or other....
and of course...
3) prevention techniques
I'm obviously concerned about scenario #2, it would be great if we could focus on that. Last but not least, we could talk about all poisonous snakes but lets focus primarily on Rattlers since that is what we have in Oregon. (if we have more, do tell.... )
*edit minor spelling error.... doh!