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I’ve ridden over a few snakes in my time as they are sunning on trials
Please avoid this if at all possible. The snake is not likely to survive being run over by a bicycle. It will break their spine and some ribs.
I understand if you're going too fast to stop and the snake is stretched across the entire trail. But if you can avoid it at all, please do.
You know, if you hurt the animal, it may fight back.
As a snake lover, I'd like to see an NSFW on that thumbnail.
NSW is in the description
If your bike suddenly grows a serpentine belt, something is wrong.
carry compression bandages
compression bandages for snakebite are a dubious treatment at best and actively harmful in the hands of the untrained, much like tourniquets (which can be useful in the case of life threatening blood loss but have significant risks). Priority should always be on identifying the snake and getting to anti-venom ASAP. This is one thing where they'll seriously consider using a helicopter.
Interesting paper, but it seems to talk about only a couple of cases, both of which were presumably incorrectly applied. To get a full picture we would need to know how many people have been saved by them.
As a counter case, I've applied a compression bandage to a snake bite victim that worked exactly as intended and caused no harm to the patient. It was on for about twelve hours and when they released it in the hospital, blood markers of envenomation appeared.
Cool, it's down to cases as always, but I did a first aid course last year and that was the advice. I suspect it'd depend where (proximity to a vein) the bite is and how fast you get it applied. YMMV.
My cousin is a digger (mostly) out in tassie and they've had to down tools a few times because of browns on the trail...
Quite a strange challenge on the job - but that's just 'cos I'm from NZ where nothings nasty...
Bears, big cats and whatever else is equally spooky, really
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