AHA recommendations RE: snakebite

[Guest guest]

While watching the AHA BLS instructor update video, the first aid section

covered new recommendations for snakebite.  AHA's first aid component now

recommends compression bandages to delay the flow of the snake's venom.  

Haven't we gone through this debate before?  It would seem that coupling

pressure dressings with the hemotoxic properties of pit viper venom coupled with

the digestive enzymes would be more likely to cause tissue necrosis, compartment

syndrome, and rhabdo.  

Or am I totally missing something here?

-Wes Ogilvie

Austin, Texas