Nurse tells howhe survived snake bite

An Australian nurse has spoken about how he survived a bite from one of the world’s deadliest snakes by using medical training to instruct his rescuers as he passed in and out of consciousness.

Christian Wright, 33, was bitten on his foot by a brown snake at the bottom of a gorge in a remote part of Karijini National Park last month.

“I looked at my foot, there was no puncture marks. No blood, no swelling, no nothing,” Wright told commercial broadcaster Channel Seven Saturday.

“I started losing my vision. I knew I was going to pass out.” The hospital midwife shouted to his friend Alex Chia, who caught him as he passed out.

“His eyes were rolling back in his head, he was shaking and sweating, and then he went totally limp and heavy,” Chia told The West Australian newspaper.

“We were down a deep gorge, 30 metres tall, there was no one in sight.”

A nearby Austrian couple heard their cries for help and called emergency services with their satellite phone as they tended to Wright’s leg using his own instructions.