…and the abscess sits somewhere that makes incision in the emergency department the wrong move — in the hand, in the medial triangle of the face…

…Critical ischaemia. Immunosuppression. Suspicion of another diagnosis: gout, a felon (pulp abscess), herpetic whitlow ( never incise a herpetic whitlow ), subungual melanoma (a pigmented longitudinal nail…

…kills because the tube would not pass, but because the team keeps trying to intubate instead of changing the plan. The aim is always oxygenation…