Clinical Core

Skin as an Organ System: Introducing Skin Failure

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Natasha Keric, MD, FACS

  Associate Professor of Surgery
  Banner University Medical Center
  Phoenix, Arizona

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

The skin is often overlooked as an organ system. Both acute and chronic skin failure have significant impact on morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. This session will introduce the skin as an organ system that can fail, including presentations of acute and chronic skin failure in the emergency department and other hospital settings. Speakers will discuss how to assess the skin on daily ICU rounds and describe ways to prevent and manage common ICU skin disorders. Death by skin failure will be addressed, beginning with a literature-based outcomes review of skin failure outcomes. Humane approaches to end-of-life care for patients with skin failure will be promoted, including communication tactics for dealing with decision-makers.

Presentations:

• Skin as an Organ System on Daily ICU Rounds: Assessment and Common Disorders
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Thea Price, BA, MD – Rush University Medical Center
• The Impact of ICU Pharmacotherapy on the Skin
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Kelli Rumbaugh, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Protecting The Skin: A Detailed Guide to Good ICU Skin Care
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Carrie Sona, BSN, CCNS, CCRN, MSN (she/her/hers) – Barnes-Jewish Hospital
• The Alley-Oop of Surgeries: Extreme Surgical Wound Care In Life and Limb Salvage
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Paul J. Chestovich, MD, FACS (he/him/his) – Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
• Introduction to Skin as an Organ: Acute and Chronic Skin Failure
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Ani Aydin, MD – Yale New Haven Hospital
• Skin Failure: Evidence-Based Outcomes and End-of-Life Care
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Steven Wolf, MD – University of Texas Medical Center at Galveston