Snakebite Resources

Latest Official Snakebite Management Resources

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 

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Emergency Care Provider Snakebite Flipper Card  

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Hospital Care Provider Snakebite Flipper Card 

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Netcare Snakebite Patient Assessment

Snakebite Assessment
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 Layman Snakebite Flipper Card 

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Emergency Care Provider Snakebite Flipper Card  

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Hospital Care Provider Snakebite Flipper Card 

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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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