I can offer some experience in this field. Just before my senior year in high school (i.e., summer of 1996), I had a pretty harsh spill after doing a jump on my BMX bike. Unfortunately for me, a street light was a little too close to the aerial trajectory of this jump and I hit the right side of my handlebars on the street light before I landed. Lets just say that my front wheel wasn’t exactly straight forward when I came back down to the ground.

Let me also add that I was traveling fast enough that I was at the following street light by the time I stopped sliding down the street/gutter.

After my mother saw my road rash, crapped a brick sideways, and drove me to the hospital, the doctor gave us some wonderful stuff called Silvadene (silver sulfadiazine). The basic use was to apply this white, goopy Silvadene to the road rash whenever the gauze bandages were changed. It served as a good topical antibiotic and kept the bandages from sticking to the wound pretty darn well.

I still have scars on my elbows, forearms, and wrists from that happy little incident.