Emergency Dermatology

by Edited by Ronni Wolf , Batya B. Davidovici , Jennifer L. Parish , Lawrence Charles Parish

• ISBN13: 9780521717335
• ISBN10: 0521717337
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Many physicians and patients do not believe that dermatology involves life-threatening situations. However, there are many emergencies that the dermatologist needs to address and many cutaneous diseases in the emergency room that require rapid dermatologic consultation. The dermatologist is frequently the first physician to examine these patients before a hospital admission, and also the first to identify a critical situation, stabilize the patient, and chose urgent and appropriate intervention. The first chapters of this book are directed toward those dermatologists who care for hospitalized patients with severe and dangerous skin diseases. Later chapters are intended for all physicians, including dermatologists, who wish to hone their diagnostic skills, expand their knowledge and understanding of pathological events, and learn treatment options available for acute life-threatening skin diseases. This book brings together top dermatologists around the world to address the complicated and multifaceted field of dermatologic emergencies for the practicing dermatologist and emergency physician.

Table of Contents

Cell injury and cell death

Clean and aseptic technique at the bedside

New antimicrobials

Immunomodulators and the 'biologicals' in cutaneous emergencies

Critical care: stuff you really, really need to know

Acute skin failure: concept, causes, consequences, and care

Cutaneous symptoms and neonatal emergencies

Necrotizing soft-tissue infections, including necrotizing fasciitis

Life-threatening bacterial skin infections

Bacteremia, sepsis, septic shock, toxic shock syndrome

Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

Life-threatening cutaneous viral diseases

Life-threatening cutaneous fungal and parasitic diseases

Life-threatening stings, bites, and marine envenomations

Severe, acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions - I. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrosis

Severe, acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions - II. DRESS Syndrome, serum sickness-like reaction

Severe, acute complications of dermatologic therapies

Severe, acute allergic and immunologic reactions - I. Urticaria, angioedema, and anaphylaxis

Severe, acute allergic and immunologic reactions - II. Other hypersensitivities and immune defects, including HIV

Graft versus host disease

Erythroderma/exfoliative dermatitis

Acute, severe bullous dermatoses

Emergency management of purpura and vasculitis, including purpura fulminans

Emergency management of connective tissue disorders and their complications

Skin signs of systemic infections

Skin signs of systemic neoplastic diseases and paraneoplastic cutaneous syndromes

Burn injury

The urgent dermatoses of anorectal regions

Emergency management of sexually transmitted diseases and other genital-urethral disorders

Emergency management of environmental skin disorders (heat, cold, UV injuries)

Endocrinologic emergencies in dermatology

Emergency management of skin torture and self-inflicted dermatoses

Skin signs of poisoning

Disaster planning - mass casualty management

Catastrophes in cosmetic procedures

Life-threatening dermatoses in travellers

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