Snakes on a Plain

Steven hartsentwine.australia@gmail.com
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 05:57:58 PST
Hi John, no you are incorrect.. A Tourniquet, cuts off blood supply & blood pressure builds up.. This forces venom flowing in the lymphatic system,  to be squeezed past the Tourniquet & the next step is usually fatal !!!  The only way to stop lymphatic flow is a strong wide semi elastic bandage from bite to full length if limb & back again.. 

Hope that cleared it up for you.. Many country's use Tourniquet, but it will kill you if used here..  

Steven :  )

On 03/11/2013, at 5:18 PM, "John C. MacGregor IV" <jonivy@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Leo,
> 
> I interpreted "pressure bandage" to mean a tourniquet to limit the spread of the venom through the blood vessels and keep it from reaching the heart before an antivenin could be administered.  Am I wrong in this assumption?
> 
> John C. MacGregor IV
> Horticultural Consultant
> South Pasadena,  CA
> USDA Zone 9
> Sunset Zones 21/23
> 
> 
> On Nov 2, 2013, at 10:40 PM, "Leo A. Martin" <leo@possi.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Pressure bandage is required for all toxic
>>> Australian snakes...
>> 
>> On my next bulb hunting expedition to Australia, if I find myself in the wild, for
>> example in the plains where the yellow Crinum grow, and I encounter a poisonous snake, I
>> would like to know how to use one of these devices. But first-aid terminology in the US
>> seems to be somehow different than in Australia, and here a pressure bandage would be a
>> wide bandage applied over a wound to stanch bleeding, so would you mind explaining what
>> "pressure bandage" means in Australia? We might save a lot of bulb hunter's lives with
>> this information.
>> 
>> Leo Martin
>> Phoenix Arizona USA
>> 
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