aardwolfe, thank you for the thoughtful reply. I totally understand. I did put a disclaimer there for the very reason you stated.

The beauty of the internet is you can choose to believe whatever you want. I'm not offended at all. If fact, I encourage you to put the same level of skeptisism you approach my opinion with, to all opinions you read on this webboard, especially those of an MD.

Just to clarify, we're dealing with a survival paradigm, so superglu isn't used to prevent infection or aid in healing time or anything similar to that. Its sole purpose is to keep the wound closed. Since this young lady's wound was on the palm of her hand and was very deep, it most likely would have needed suturing. But by the time we could've gotten her to a clinic the wound would have closed enough on its own that no MD would advise suturing. So the Superglu was to enable her to use her hand. That she used her hand to climb is irrelevant. I don't know why her husband didn't step up to treat her or to even console her. I don't think he thought I knew more than he did.

Climbers are an unusual breed, I admit, and usually when things go bad for us we must act quickly, independently, and with very limit resources at hand. My advice comes from that perspective. There are numerous ways to get yourself killed once you step into the mountains without getting verticle. Add that extra element of height and you are in a constant state of survival- always having to keep your cool, even if you are 30 feet past your last piece of pro, a storm system moving, your arms pumped to the max, and the hardest part of the route yet to come. Keep Cool and act logically!

The superglu is just logical to me in some circumstances. Not for everyone though, and I except that and understand that.