Things to do when bitten you must know

After snake ca need to evacuate immediately, proceed before patient transport to the hospital. Can others help patients themselves or by the self-employed.

Snake bites can cause death from at any time if we do not know how to handle.

How first aid

-Do not let patients walk again. Motionless legs were bitten by splints (for mobility make the venom enters the body faster). Leave jewelry at the foot, the hand being bitten because that can cause pinched when that area was swollen.

-determine the bite. Tourniquet on bites from about 3-5 cm. Garô can be used with the line there, should not use a too small, so easy to hurt for garô place. The garô should be tightened just right, should not be tightened too and should not garô long 30° n

-Wash the bite then goes to the medical station, the nearest hospital to be treated. If detected, the Snake is also tourniquet is then slit with a knife about bitten wound into a cross (+).

Note should not slit too deep to avoid slashing into the blood vessels, nerves or tendons ..., just slit through the skin to the body when blood flow is. Gash about 1 to 2 cm and remember to antiseptic before the slit. Moulding toxic blood out fresh blood to flow out until the is are

-Clean the wound then brought the victim to the nearest hospital to be treated 1 timely.

-Apply tape measure pressed real estate with some kind of Tiger snakes (bungarus, kraits, sea snakes Cobra and some look like Cobra): tape the pressed property to slow the appearance of symptoms. Not the ice pressed when grass snake bites because of severe wounds can do more.=