Originally Posted By: Cockroach
...no trained paramedic/emergency rooms available within a reasonable amount of time and needing to close a serious wound.

You are making a bad assumption here. "...needing to close a serious wound". You don't need to do that. And you should not. But you appear intent on your planned course of action. Just do not expect good results. Be prepared for bad, possibly very very bad results instead.

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FYI I've attended medic first aid training (Scuba rescue diver cert), us army general first aid, worked in a hospital (5 blocks from WTC during 9-11), ...

No offense intended, but none of these even remotely qualify as training for wound care at the level you are contemplating.