DERMATOLOGIC EMERGENCIES

Urticaria
Bilharziasis
Herpes zoster
Herpes simplex
Bullous pemphigoid
Subcorneal pustular dermatosis
Familial benign pemphigus (Hailey Hailey disease)
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP)
SPOROTRICHOSIS
LEISHMANIASIS
ACUTE SKIN FAILURE
HYPERSESITIVITY REACTIONS AND THE SKIN
TYPE I : immediate
TYPE II :antibody dependant cytotoxicity ( by complement activation)
TYPE III : immune complex disease Arthus reaction & serum sickness
TYPE IV : cell mediated or delayed
ANGIOEDEMA
MASTOCYTOSIS (URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA)
ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME BULLOSUM (MAJOR)
STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME
TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS ( TEN ) (LYELL SYNDROME)
ERYTHRODERMA ( EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS )
ORBITAL & PERIORBITAL (PRESEPTAL) CELLULITIS
NECROTIZING FASCIITIS (FLESH EATING DISEASE)
CUTANEOUS DRUG REACTIONS
DRESS SYNDROME (Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms)
STAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME (SSSS)
TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME (SEPTIC SHOCK)
CUTANEOUS VIRAL INFECTIONS WITH SYSTEMIC INVOLVEMENT
SMALL POX
CUTANEOUS FUNGAL INFECTIONS WITH SYSTEMIC INVOLVEMENT
CANDIDIASIS
HISTOPLASMOSIS
ECZEMA HERPETICUM (KAPOSI VARICILLIFORM ERUPTION)
CHICKEN POX
CUTANEOUS PARASITIC DISEASES WITH SYSTEMIC INVOLVEMENT
AMOEBIASIS
HIV (AIDS)
ARTHROPOD BITES & STINGS
ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE
CUTANEOUS VASCULITIS (PURPURA) PURPURA FULMINANS (PURPURA GANGRENOSA)
IMMUNOBULLOUS DISEASES
PEMPHIGUS VULGARISPEMPHIGUS VULGARIS
GENETIC/ INHERITED BULLOUS DISORDERS
Epidermolysis bullosa
Familial benign pemphigus ( Hailey
Hailey disease )
Grover disease
CHILD WITH FEVER & SKIN RASH (FEBRILE EXANTHEM)
KAWAZAKI DISEASE (MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPHADENOPATHY DISEASE)
BURN INJURY
ACNE FULMINANS