Dermatological Manifestations in the Intensive Care Unit: A Practical Approach

Table 2

Published studies on dermatological disorders in critical patients.

	Dunnill et al.	Badia et al.	George et al.	Henk et al.	Prashanth and Pai	Wollina and Nowak	Badia et al.	Emre et al.	Agrawal et al.	Chang et al.	Pektas and Demir	Pektas and Demir	Awal and Kaur	Gupta et al.
Publication year	1994	1999	2008	2011	2012	2012	2013	2013	2013	2014	2017	2017	2018	2018
Period (years)	1	2	11	3	2	1	3	1	3	1	3	3	2	<1
Country	UK	Spain	UK	Holland	India	Deutschland	Spain	Turkey	India	Guatemala	Turkey	Turkey	India	India
Type of study	Retrosp.	Prosp.	Retrosp.	Prosp.	Retrosp.	Retrosp.	Prosp.	Prosp.	Prosp.	Prosp.	Prosp.	Prosp.	Prosp.	Prosp.
	UNI	UNI	MULTI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI	UNI
Type of patient	Adult	Adult	Adult	Pedia.	Pedia.	Adult	Adult	Adult	Adult	Adult	Adult	Adult	Adult	Mix
No. of patients	27	46	2406	42	318	55	133	82	427	47	151	73	312	50
No. of lesions	27	51	2406	46	361		154	90	427	47		73	312	50
Type of lesions (N)
Life-threatening	5	0	199	3	3	7	5	—
Systemic	10	14	61	18	284	—	26	—	29	—	—	0	20	2
Associate	9	34	12	15	8	20	45	61	159	38	—	0	109	1
Previous	3	3	191	2	14	8	—	—	67	—	96	60	121	36
Other	—	—	1943	8	9	20	14	29	94	—	13	2	46	1
Acute skin failure (N)			199				5	1	10				9
APACHE II			17.2				18		17.4
Length of stay (IQR)		19	—			16	23	5–57			10 (13)			17 (3–43)
Mortality ICU (%)	33	26	27.5	16		21.8			46.1		31.1	46.6	11.2
Mortality HOSP (%)			39.6				38.3

Prosp.: prospective study. Retrosp.: retrospective study. UNI: unicenter study. MULTI: multicenter study.