Emergency Dermatology, Second Edition

Description:

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 such patients before a hospital admission and also the first to identify a critical situation, stabilize the patient, and choose urgent and appropriate intervention. Both the practicing dermatologist and the emergency physician will benefit from the revised and updated edition of this text from top international dermatologists, enabling them to hone their diagnostic skills, expand their knowledge and understanding of pathologic events, and learn treatment options available for acute life-threatening skin diseases in this complicated and multifaceted field.

Table of Contents:

1 Cell injury and cell death

2 Clean and aseptic technique at the bedside

3 New antimicrobials

4 Use of biologic agents in cutaneous emergencies

5 Critical care: Stuff you really, really need to know

6 Acute skin failure

7 Dermatologic emergencies in neonatal medicine

8 Necrotizing soft-tissue infections

9 Life-threatening bacterial skin infections

10 Bacteremia, sepsis, septic shock, and toxic shock syndrome

11 Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

12 Life-threatening cutaneous viral diseases

13 Life-threatening cutaneous fungal and parasitic diseases

14 Life-threatening stings, bites, and marine envenomations

15 Severe and acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions I: Stevens–Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis

16 Severe and acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions II: DRESS syndrome and serum sickness-like reaction

17 Severe and acute complications of dermatologic therapies

18 Severe and acute allergic and immunologic reactions I: Urticaria, angioedema, mastocytosis, and anaphylaxis

19 Severe, acute allergic and immunologic reactions II: Other hypersensitivities and immune defects, including HIV

20 Graft versus host diseases

21 Erythroderma/exfoliative dermatitis

22 Acute severe bullous dermatoses

23 Emergency management of purpura and vasculitis, including purpura fulminans

24 Emergency management of connective tissue disorders and their complications

25 Skin signs of systemic infections

26 Skin signs of systemic neoplastic diseases and paraneoplastic cutaneous syndromes

27 Burn injury

28 Emergency dermatoses of the anorectal regions

29 Emergency management of sexually transmitted diseases and other genitourethral disorders

30 Emergency management of environmental skin disorders: Heat, cold, ultraviolet light injuries

31 Endocrinologic emergencies in dermatology

32 Emergency management of skin torture and self-inflicted dermatoses

33 Cutaneous signs of poisoning

34 Cosmetic complications

35 Life-threatening dermatoses in travelers

36 Information management

Index