Snakebite Resources

Essential Snake Bite Resouces

The following documents are the official Snakebite National Management Guidelines as published by the South African Snakebite Working Group. The are the definitive guide to snake bite response in Southern Africa. They include flipper charts for the laymen, emergency care provider, hospital care provider and the Netcare Snakebite Patient Assessment.

 Layman Snakebite Flipper Card 

Snakebite First Aid Reference
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Emergency Care Provider Snakebite Flipper Card  

Snakebite First Aid Reference
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Hospital Care Provider Snakebite Flipper Card 

Snakebite First Aid Reference
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Netcare Snakebite Patient Assessment

Snakebite Assessment
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Two snakebite antivenoms have potential to reduce Eswatini’s dependency upon a single, increasingly unavailable product: Results of preclinical efficacy testing

Snakebite is a major public health concern in Eswatini, where treatment relies upon one antivenom—SAIMR Polyvalent. Although effective in treating snakebite, SAIMR Polyvalent is difficult to source outside its manufacturing country (South Africa) and is dauntingly expensive. We compared the ...

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