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.
1. Cell injury and cell death
2. Clean and aseptic technique at the bedside
3. New antimicrobials
4. Immunomodulators and the 'biologicals' in cutaneous emergencies
5. Critical care: stuff you really, really need to know
6. Acute skin failure: concept, causes, consequences, and care
7. Cutaneous symptoms and neonatal emergencies
8. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections, including necrotizing fasciitis
9. Life-threatening bacterial skin infections
10. Bacteremia, sepsis, septic shock, 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, acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions
– I. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrosis
16. Severe, acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions
– II. DRESS Syndrome, serum sickness-like reaction
17. Severe, acute complications of dermatologic therapies
18. Severe, acute allergic and immunologic reactions
– I. Urticaria, angioedema, and anaphylaxis
19. Severe, acute allergic and immunologic reactions
– II. Other hypersensitivities and immune defects, including HIV
20. Graft versus host disease
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. The urgent dermatoses of anorectal regions
29. Emergency management of sexually transmitted diseases and other genital-urethral disorders
30. Emergency management of environmental skin disorders (heat, cold, UV injuries)
31. Endocrinologic emergencies in dermatology
32. Emergency management of skin torture and self-inflicted dermatoses
33. Skin signs of poisoning
34. Disaster planning – mass casualty management
35. Catastrophes in cosmetic procedures
36. Life-threatening dermatoses in travellers
About the Author
- Ronni Wolf, MD, is Associate Clinical Professor and Head of the Dermatology Unit at Kaplan Medical Center, Rechovot, Israel, and the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
- Batya B. Davidovici, MD, is a physician in the Dermatology Unit at Kaplan Medical Center, Rechovot, Israel.
- Jennifer L. Parish, MD, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Lawrence Charles Parish, MD, MD (hon), is Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology and Director of the Jefferson Center for International Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr Parish is also a Visiting Professor of Dermatology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 31, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521717337
- ISBN-13: 978-0521717335
- Author: Ronni Wolf MD, Batya Davidovici MD, Jennifer L. Parish and Lawrence C. Parish