Do not try to clean an already clean wound. Apply a sterile dressing or pressure bandage. If bleeding persists, do not take the bandage off, reinforce it with further bandaging. Avoid changing dressing. Make sure surface of the bandage in contact with the air is dry.
Germs can infect through a soaked bandage faster than through a dry one.
If bodily movement in the vicinity of the cut will inhibit healing by causing tissue to shift or cut, immobilize with splint. Remove load off sprained limb at once, and wait. If you have stressed but not damaged the ligaments, pain should subside. If pain persists, joint swells and there is extreme tenderness to the touch, a partial rupture of ligament is very likely to have occurred. Reduce swelling by elevating joint above body, cool joint with ice, snow, cold water.