Originally Posted By: hazeywolf
"The Sawyer Extractor pump removed bloody fluid from our simulated snakebite wounds but removed virtually no mock venom, which suggests that suction is unlikely to be an effective treatment for reducing the total body venom burden after a venomous snakebite."

This study is interesting, but it raises more questions than it answers. They can't conclude that the Extractor is ineffective, just that it is ineffective after 3 minutes. I wonder what the results would be if it was applied within seconds of the "bite". You would think that they would have tested several different intervals like the bee sting study mentioned here recently.
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