#you're a goddamn nurse go wash your hands before you put on gloves or start sewing someone's stomach closed

[more-gremlin-than-fae]

ahhhhh, a trained goddamn nurse in this book just told somebody with EMT training to bring him peroxide for a serious stab wound.

This man has been knifed across the gut and you're going to disinfect his wound with PEROXIDE, fuck right off.

[spritzes the author in the face with a water bottle] NO.

I am begging you all, if you're going to write a wound care scene do the minimum of basic research.

Take a single solitary first aid course, the absolute most basic one you can find will tell you all need to know to write a decent wound care scene. Especially do this if your character is supposedly trained in any level of first aid or first response.

Get your friend on facebook or your tumblr mutual or your best friend's kid who just finished their babysitting certification or their lifeguard course to fact check you.

GOOGLE IT "First aid treatment for [wound]"

and then also think it through, if your character is holding pressure on the wound, he is then relying on the bystanders to prep his equipment and to know the specific tools he's asking for and also how is he going to wash his hands and put on the gloves he asked for before starting on cleaning the wound or administering treatment.

Holding a towel or gauze pack on the wound is the unskilled job here, it takes minimal training - you get your bystander(s) to do that shit while you do the stuff that takes specialty knowledge like prep the gear you need for putting stitches in this poor sucker's abdomen. BONUS IF YOU'RE WRITING THIS SCENE YOU DON'T HAVE TO DESCRIBE THE EQUIPMENT YOU NEED, YOU JUST SAY "I got out the suture kit and the other basics I needed to start cleaning and sewing the wound up."