Assurance Snake Bite Kit

Your impulse when you're bandaging a bite will be to pull it tight — you're worried, so tighter feels safer. It isn't. This snake bite kit is built around getting the pressure right, not tight, with an indicator bandage that shows you exactly when you've got it correct. Light enough for your glovebox, your belt clip, or a day walk, without leaving anything out.

It's not just for snakes, either. The splint in this kit is a genuine fracture splint — if you or someone with you takes a fall and breaks a limb, the same aluminium foam splint that holds a bitten limb still during pressure immobilisation does the job for a break too. One kit, two serious uses.

• Two snake bite bandages with indicator (10cm x 4.5m each) Most snake bites in Australia happen on the lower limbs, and pressure immobilisation only works if you wrap firmly from the bite site up. This snake bite compression bandage's printed tension indicator turns rectangles into squares the moment your pressure's right, so you're not guessing whether your snake bite pressure bandage is tight enough when you're a long way from help.
• Aluminium foam splint — doubles as fracture support, not just snake bite immobilisation Moulds around an arm or a leg and holds its shape, so it works for a suspected break as well as it does for keeping a bitten limb still. If you're out with just yourself or a mate and something goes wrong, this is the item doing double duty in your kit.
• Cotton calico triangular bandage and conforming bandage For keeping the limb properly still once it's splinted or bandaged. Getting the full pressure immobilisation technique right matters more than any single item in the bag, and this kit gives you everything the technique calls for.
• Permanent marker, instant ice pack, and A4 step-by-step instructions with QR code Mark the bite time straight onto the skin or bandage — your treating hospital will need it. The ice pack manages swelling while you wait. The instructions are in plain English, with a QR code to the Australian Bites & Stings app if you want a second reference on the day.

Hand-assembled in Dubbo, using components from a 100% Australian-owned and operated manufacturer, and checked before it ships — backed by 19 years of remote NSW first aid training experience going into every design decision.