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by fainpul 187 days ago
> grabs my elbow and pulls the head of a broken bottle out of it. Blood started spraying everywhere of course.

I learned in first aid courses that if something is stuck deeply in a wound, you should not pull it out, but instead fixate it with some bandage and go to the hospital like that. The reason is that it can start bleeding a lot more if the object is removed.