Consult a regional poison control center or clinician with expertise in treating bites caused by Australian or Pacific Island snakes for medical therapy including indications for giving antivenom, specific antivenom to use, and dosing. | |||
Common name | Scientific name | Additional effects | Antivenom |
Snakes potentially causing paralysis | |||
Tiger snake | Notechis scutatus (includes N. ater) | Coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis, and acute kidney injury | Monovalent and polyvalent |
Rough scaled snake | Tropidechis carinatus | Coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis, and acute kidney injury | Monovalent and polyvalent |
Copperheads | Austrelaps species | Rhabdomyolysis | Monovalent and polyvalent |
Brown snakes | Pseudonaja species | Coagulopathy and acute kidney injury predominate, paralysis rare | Monovalent and polyvalent |
Taipans | Oxyuranus species | Coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis, and acute kidney injury | Monovalent and polyvalent |
New Guinea small-eyed snake | Micropechis ikaheka | Coagulopathy and rhabdomyolysis | Polyvalent |
Death adder | Acanthophis species | Paralysis only | Monovalent and polyvalent |
Sea snakes | Numerous genera and species | Rhabdomyolysis, secondary kidney failure | Monovalent |
Snakes causing systemic illness without paralysis, sometimes with local tissue damage¶ | |||
Broad-headed snake | Hoplocephalus species | Coagulopathy only, no significant local effects | Monovalent (Tiger snake antivenom), polyvalent |
Red-bellied black snake | Pseudechis species | Coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis | Monovalent (Tiger snake or Black snake antivenom), polyvalent |
Mulga, Papuan black, and Collett snakes | Pseudechis species | Coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis, and acute kidney injury | Monovalent (Black snake antivenom), polyvalent |
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