Dermatological emergency and life threatening skin conditions
Abstract Dermatology is known to be a non-emergency cool discipline, but many dermatological entities really deserve special immediate intervention. Some of them also have significant disease related fatality. Understanding the etiopathogenesis and disease course of these conditions are very important to save patient’s life. Among them severe drug reactions, acute urticaria, angioedema, anaphylaxis, erythroderma, flare of pre-existing inflammatory dermatoses, bullous diseases and infections including staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS), necrotizing fasciitis (NF) etc. Failure of timely diagnose and intervene against many of these conditions may lead to acute skin failure and multiorgan failure. This article is aimed to discuss dermatological emergencies, their etiopathogenesis, consequences, diagnosis and management. Keywords: Dermatology, Emergency, Dermatological emergency, Acute skin failure. |