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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2354789" data-attributes="member: 19675">Not everything in the world is online.I'm not an MD, I'm an attorney/MBA who grew up in a medical household, with friends & family in ERs and medical practices around the world- ranging from EMTs to Nurses to MDs.  I've also done my share of emergency treatment of wounds from things like large shards of glass or removing broken needle tips (from a discarded needle, no less- I never go barefoot in public).If you apply gentle force to either side of a slash wound, you can detect its limits- its depth and breadth- for suturing...generally speaking.By way of contrast a puncture as small as a pinprick- through the wrong tissue, can lead to hemorhage, sepsis and death.  You can't just spread a puncture to determine its depth.  Two wounds that look identical to each other on the surface could differ in depth by several inches.In either case, its not easy- a deep slash could nick a kidney almost invisibly, etc., but its stilll easier to see the extent of a wound</blockquote>