when you fall and get road rash in a race the medic comes with a really abrasive brush thing to clean the gravel out of the wound.
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What EMT would do that? The Marquis de Sade?
It gets washed out with a sterile solution.

A good one. I've been scrubbed out after mountain bike crashes. My son hit the gravel on a road and was scrubbed out by an MD at urgent care. I've seen it done at NORBA races. Sometimes solution isn't enough if you've got gravel/dirt/grit really ground in.