…acidic environment inactivates the anaesthetic. Place a field block in healthy skin around the abscess instead of injecting into it, and expect the procedure to…

…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…