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Key point: • Being one of the commonest presenting emergencies, epistaxis can increase the pressure on the health service; in times similar to COVID-19 pandemic such pressure can be crucial and challenging to deal with. • Non-absorbable nasal packing and home discharge for selected patients can be a safe and efficient alternative treatment method with low readmission rates (5.3 %); such management can be of tremendous help when the hospital capacity is overwhelmed. • Although such protocols can be challenging to generalize, the presented protocol seems safe, easily adoptable without any significant complications.

Keypoints: • The presence of a pharyngeal mucosal space abscesses (PMA), being confined between the pharyngeal mucosa and the pharyngeal constrictor muscle, is considered rare. However, in our series represented 14,3% of deep neck infections (DNIs), suggesting that they may not be so rare as they are considered to be. • PMAs’ symptoms and clinical findings are similar to those of other DNIs, but trismus and neck swelling seem to be significant lower in PMAs. • Imaging studies will set PMA diagnosis, while CT with contrast is the modality of choice. • PMAs seems to be less dangerous than their deep-seated counterparts, since its superficial location renders them amenable to spontaneous drainage, aspiration, incision and drainage intraorally obviating spread to deeper structures.