In all honesty, I wouldn’t worry too much about sterility. He would get a full washout and a bevy of antibiotics at the hospital. Besides that, placing dry gauze on scrapes will end up embedding in the surface and will hurt like a hell and restart bleeding when it is peeled off at the hospital. Any wound not spouting, I’d just leave it alone. If you have a bleeder, hold pressure until it stops, then leave it alone. Good point about disposable gloves, though. I’ll throw a few pair in my kit.
Great points...throw some occlusive dressings in the kits and you are covered, you never know when a sucking chest wound will show up. Retired F/F-EMT
Just make sure you do not attempt administer first aid above your level of training...Good Sam law
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