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.

Features

*contains a full range of information from basic to rare conditions
*contains new chapters on information management
* features colour illustration throughout

Contents

۱. Cell injury and cell death
۲. Clean and aseptic technique at the bedside
۳. New antimicrobials
۴. Use of biologic agents in cutaneous emergencies
۵. Critical care: Stuff you realty,, really need to know
۶. Acute skin failure
۷. Dermatologic emergencies in neonatal medicine
۸. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections
۹. Life-threatening bacterial skin infections
۱۰. Bacteremiar sepsisr septic shock, and toxic shock syndrome
۱۱. Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
۱۲. Life-threatening cutaneous viral diseases
۱۳. Life-threatening cutaneous fungal and parasitic diseases
۱۴. Life-threatening stings, bites, and marine envenomations
۱۵. Severe and acute adverse cutaneous drug reactionsI: Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis
۱۶. Severe and acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions II: DRESS syndrome and serum sickness-like reaction
۱۷. Severe and acute complications of dermatologic therapies
۱۸. Severe and acute allergic and immunologic reactionsI: Urticaria, angioedema, mastocytosis, and anaphylaxis
۱۹. Severe, acute allergic and immunologic reactions II: Other hypersensitivities and immune defects, including HIV
۲۰. Graft versus host diseases
۲۱. Erythroderma/exfoliative dermatitis
۲۲. Acute severe bullous dermatoses
۲۳. Emergency management of purpura and vasculitis, including purpura fulminans
۲۴. Emergency management of connective tissue disorders and their complications
۲۵. Skin signs of systemic infections
۲۶. Skin signs of systemic neoplastic diseases and paraneoplastic cutaneous syndromes
۲۷. Burn injury
۲۸. Emergency dermatoses of the anorectal regions
۲۹. Emergency management of sexually transmitted diseases and other genitourethral disorders
۳۰. Emergency management of environmental skin disorders: Heat, cold, ultraviolet light injuries
۳۱. Endocrinologic emergencies in dermatology
۳۲. Emergency management of skin torture and self-inflicted dermatoses
۳۳. Cutaneous signs of poisoning
۳۴. Cosmetic complications
۳۵. Life-threatening dermatoses in travelers
۳۶. Information management