How to Avoid Snake Bites
Avoiding Snake Bites in Your Backyard
How to Capture a Venomous Snake
How to Tell If a Snake Is Poisonous
First Aid Tools for Poisonous Snakes Attack
First Aid if an Adult is Bitten by a Snake
How to Use An Extractor to Remove Snake Venom
First Aid if a Child Bitten by a Snake
First Aid if a Pet is Bitten by a Snake
What Are the Most Common Venomous Snakes?
Common Snakes Not Native to USA
Common Misconceptions About Poisonous Snakes
How to Identify Coral & King Snakes
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Summary: How to use an extractor to remove venom in this free first aid video.
Ginger Black works for a state facility where she handles venomous and non-venomous reptiles and amphibians on a weekly basis. She has received extensive training from the state...read more
"Hi, I'm Ginger Black. I'm a professional snake handler with Expert Village. Okay. We have our pseudo snake bite victim here who was prepared enough to bring his Sawyer extraction kit with him. Inside the kit you have a cheat sheet telling you what you can use this kit for. There are sting relief pads for bee and ant stings, things to that effect. Alcohol prep pads. A couple of Band-Aids. The extractor itself. The tips that belong in it. And a razor. You want to begin by taking one of your alcohol prep pads and very gently cleaning the bite location. Your razor. You want to very gently shave around the bite location to remove any hair there. Remove your extractor. And, choose a tip that is an appropriate size for the wound. You want something that will cover both punctures from the fangs. If the snake was too large to do with one tip, you may need two extraction kits. You'll pull the plunger back on the extractor. Put the tip on the end. Place it over the puncture wounds. And push the plunger in. This draws the skin up into the tip and will suck blood and venom from the victims skin. You don't want to leave it on anymore than thirty seconds at a time. To remove it, simply pull the plunger out. Take it off. Clean the site again with a prep pad. Clean the kit. And, replace it. Go through the whole process again. You want to do this as many times as possible within the first five minutes after the bite."
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motogpfan said
on 3/24/2009 If you were a professional hot snake handler you would know it's impossible to extract venom from your blood stream. The only thing you're doing is wasting valuable time getting to the hospital for anti-venom. You putting peoples lives at risk with this dopey video.