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The Worst Fingers Infections Ever

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Brief narration accompanies treatment of a fingernail-fold infection. The clinician identifies a paronychia, states it is not an ingrown nail, uses cold spray instead of local anaesthetic, and makes a quick incision to relieve it. Despite the title's wording, the footage covers this single infection.

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The brief narration on this recording describes a single paronychia, an infection beside a fingernail. The clinician states it is not an ingrown nail, uses cold spray rather than local anaesthetic, and makes a quick incision to relieve it. Despite the title's wording, the footage covers one nail-fold infection treated in under a minute of speech.

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Alright, so what we're going to do is we're going to relieve this. This is a periniculae. You can see that we have an infection on the side of the nail. It is not an ingrownail. We're not going to use any lidocaine or anesthetic except for our cold spray. We're going to make a quick incision. Go. Just like that.

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