The First Aid thread

[Haakon]

Maybe time for a discussion on what we should be doing, or a refresher on what we should be doing when things go a little sideways...

My first one is from a First Aid course I did today and what to do for snake bite. I carry a compression bandage in the camelbak and to my surprise was told I cant put it on myself!

So imperative it is that once bitten that you stay so still, that even the action of applying a bandage to a lower leg and not moving it, moves it and activate muscles enough that it can be the difference between surviving or not! A riding buddy can do it for you, but if you're alone the bandage isn't getting used - lay still, make a phone call for help if you have reception and lie still and wait. And keep waiting...

A sobering instruction for someone who usually rides alone!

 

[silentbutdeadly]

On the upside, you don't then have to carry a compression bandage. Think of the weight you'll save!!

 

[Minlak]

Maybe time for a discussion on what we should be doing, or a refresher on what we should be doing when things go a little sideways...

My first one is from a First Aid course I did today and what to do for snake bite. I carry a compression bandage in the camelbak and to my surprise was told I cant put it on myself!

So imperative it is that once bitten that you stay so still, that even the action of applying a bandage to a lower leg and not moving it, moves it and activate muscles enough that it can be the difference between surviving or not! A riding buddy can do it for you, but if you're alone the bandage isn't getting used - lay still, make a phone call for help if you have reception and lie still and wait. And keep waiting...

A sobering instruction for someone who usually rides alone!

I cannot find the actual article I read and I think it was called the long sleep or similar but essentially they used to just lay down not move at all and wait
I hate Ai but it has made it harder to find what I am looking for as it offers its own answers always

 

[Haakon]

Yep. I was just surprised it was such a fast mechanism that you couldnt even sitting on the ground lean forward and strap up a leg...

 

[Stredda]

Maybe time for a discussion on what we should be doing, or a refresher on what we should be doing when things go a little sideways...

My first one is from a First Aid course I did today and what to do for snake bite. I carry a compression bandage in the camelbak and to my surprise was told I cant put it on myself!

So imperative it is that once bitten that you stay so still, that even the action of applying a bandage to a lower leg and not moving it, moves it and activate muscles enough that it can be the difference between surviving or not! A riding buddy can do it for you, but if you're alone the bandage isn't getting used - lay still, make a phone call for help if you have reception and lie still and wait. And keep waiting...

A sobering instruction for someone who usually rides alone!

Yes, it's your lymphatic system in which the poison gets around your body and your lymphatic system doesn't have a pump, so relies on body movement. That's why you can get a lot of fluid swelling when you are bedridden.

I cannot find the actual article I read and I think it was called the long sleep or similar but essentially they used to just lay down not move at all and wait
I hate Ai but it has made it harder to find what I am looking for as it offers its own answers always

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I heard the same thing when I did my first aid course.

 

[mark22]

From my experience a couple of cheap triangle bandages and some pads can be used for a multiple purposes.
I've used 4 triangle ones 3 for slings and one pad and triangle as a bandage on an open fracture on riders.
Personally I've never come across a snake bite victim.

 

[slowmick]

Georgia's scout group was away at Cuboree last week (3600 cubs + leaders + site crew) and one of the leaders was bitten on the arm while they were loading up the bus to come home. I can only imagine the hoard of people running with bandages at the ready to help.

 

[Minlak]

From my experience a couple of cheap triangle bandages and some pads can be used for a multiple purposes.
I've used 4 triangle ones 3 for slings and one pad and triangle as a bandage on an open fracture on riders.
Personally I've never come across a snake bite victim.

I actually don't know anyone that has been bitten on a ride / walk / run in the bush - used to do a lot of hunting no one was ever bit - The people I do know that have been bitten are all experiences you wouldn't expect - went to open a gate and bitten by a snake on the face post - gardening in suburbia and bitten etc

 

[bigdamo]

I actually don't know anyone that has been bitten on a ride / walk / run in the bush - used to do a lot of hunting no one was ever bit - The people I do know that have been bitten are all experiences you wouldn't expect - went to open a gate and bitten by a snake on the face post - gardening in suburbia and bitten etc

I know a few who have been bitten while they where fly fishing but there waders prevented the bite pearcing the skin. Well that's what they said.

I know one person who got bitten and I asked what did it feel like and he said " like someone punched you"

If your going to come across a snake going fly fishing is the place to be. I have had a couple of times fishing in a lake or river and snake has started swimming across towards me and I had to take evasive action. I was told because you are standing still for so long the snake thinks your a tree.

I was talking to Sue who always walks her dog in the bush and we were talking about snake sightings and what we would do if a snake bit the dog.

 

[DougalStrachan]

Mates young bloke got bitten by a brown snake a while back, mucking around in a dry creek bed - he's 10ish - it was thankfully a dry bite tho. Never really hear of that but apparently it's more common than a wet? bite. Anyway scarey stuff!