If it is going to be more than one hour to transport, you should consider rinsing and disinfecting the wound. Snakebite is always a hot topic. In what follows we will attempt to describe prevention and treatment of bites by poisonous snakes in North America as well as the effects of such bites. Be aware that we are dealing with overreaction and hype here. Popular literature, folklore, and movies have greatly exaggerated both the probability of snakebite and the likely outcome should it happen.
Humans are much less likely to get bitten than many people believe.
Furthermore snakebite, while serious, is not the death sentence often implied. Snakes, poisonous and otherwise, have excited a lot of aversion and superstition over the ages, resulting in unwarranted fear and sometimes even panic. Dangerous overtreatment for bites in which envenomation does not occur. Worsening the outcome of snakebites due to panic. Unnecessary and dangerous treatment of bites by nonvenomous snakes.