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 > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/