Cell injury and cell death -- Clean and aseptic technique at the bedside -- New antimicrobials -- Use of biologic agents in cutaneous emergencies -- Critical care: stuff you really, really need to know -- Acute skin failure -- Dermatological emergencies in neonatal medicine -- Necrotizing soft-tissue infections -- Life-threatening bacterial skin infections -- Bacteremia, sepsis, septic shock, and toxic shock syndrome -- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome -- Life-threatening cutaneous viral diseases -- Life-threatening cutaneous fungal and parasitic diseases -- Life-threatening stings, bites, and marine envenomations -- Severe and acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions I: stevens-johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrosis -- Severe and acute adverse cutaneous drug reactions II: DRESS syndrome, serum sickness- like reaction -- Severe and acute complications of dermatologic therapies -- Severe and acute allergic and immunologic reactions I: urticaria, angioedema, mastocytosis, and anaphylaxis -- Severe and acute allergic and immunologic reactions II: other hypersensitivities and immune defects, including HIV -- Graft versus host disease -- Erythroderma/exfoliative dermatitis -- Acute, severe bullous dermatoses -- Emergency management of purpura and vasculitis, including purpura fulminans -- Emergency management of connective tissue disorders and their complications -- Skin signs of systemic infections and other life-threatening systemic diseases -- Skin signs of systemic neoplastic diseases and paraneoplastic cutaneous syndromes -- Burn injury. Emergency dermatoses of the anorectal regions -- Emergency management of sexually transmitted diseases and other genitourethral disorders -- Emergency management of environmental skin disorders: heat, cold, ultraviolet light injuries -- Endocrinologic emergencies in dermatology -- Emergency management of skin torture and self-inflicted dermatoses -- Cutaneous signs of poisoning -- Cosmetic complications -- Life-threatening dermatoses in travellers -- Information management.