Re: Did I do the right thing?
Agreed. ABC's are priority. Circulation/bleeding outranks cleaning a wound anyday.
One thing I have noticed in the few years I have been doing this is that when a child is seriously injured at school, the parents almost always have some complaint about how it was handled. I don't know it it is guilt, or what, but I have never had a parent that did not at least say "I wish you had done x instead of z." Since you are the first responder, you are an easy target. Believe me, if you HAD cleaned it out, they would be complaining about the blood lost while cleaning it. Sometimes you just have to know that you did the right thing and just let them be upset.
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