Emergency Dermatology

1. Cell injury and cell death Adone Baroni, Eleonora Rocco, Maria Antoinetta Tufano, and Elisabetta Buommino; 2. Clean and aseptic technique at the bedside Sapna Modi, Aron J. Gewirtzman, and Stephen Tyring; 3. New antimicrobials Maryann Mikhail and Jeffrey M. Weinberg; 4. Immunomodulators and the 'biologicals' in cutaneous emergencies Batya B. Davidovici and Ronni Wolf; 5. Critical care: stuff you really, really need to know Haim Shmilovich and Arie Roth; 6. Acute skin failure: concept, causes, consequences, and care Robert A. Norman and Gwynn Coatney; 7. Cutaneous symptoms and neonatal emergencies Daniel Wallach and Pierre-Henri Jarreau; 8. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections, including necrotizing fasciitis Ronni Wolf, Yalcin Tuzun, and Batya B. Davidovici; 9. Life-threatening bacterial skin infections Richard B. Cindrich and Donald Rudikoff; 10. Bacteremia, sepsis, septic shock, toxic shock syndrome Geeta Patel, Ryan Hawley, and Noah Scheinfeld; 11. Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome Eleonora Ruocco, Adone Baroni, Sonia Sangiuliano, Giovanna Donnarumma, and Vincenzo Ruocco; 12. Life-threatening cutaneous viral diseases Aron J. Gewirtzman, Brandon Christianson, Anne Marie Tremaine, Brenda Bartlett, and Stephen Tyring; 13. Life-threatening cutaneous fungal and parasitic diseases Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Carlos Gustavo Constanca, and Sueli Coelho Carneiro; 14. Life-threatening stings, bites, and marine envenomations Dick M. Elston; 15. Severe, acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions - I. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrosis Ronni Wolf and Batya B. Davidovici; 16. Severe, acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions - II. DRESS Syndrome, serum sickness-like reaction Ronni Wolf and Batya B. Davidovici; 17. Severe, acute complications of dermatologic therapies Ronni Wolf, Jasna Lipozencic, and Batya B. Davidovici; 18. Severe, acute allergic and immunologic reactions - I. Urticaria, angioedema, and anaphylaxis Samuel H. Allen; 19. Severe, acute allergic and

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.