Acil Servisten Dermatoloji Polikliniğine Yönlendirilen Hastaların İncelenmesi.

Objective: Patients who come to the emergency department with dermatological complaints are generally referred to polyclinics. This practice increases the rate of correct diagnosis and treatment. It also reduces the workload of the emergency service. In this article, we wanted to examine the patients who applied to the emergency department and referred to our outpatient clinic but had any dermatological emergencies. Material and Methods: Patients between August 2018 and February 2020 were retrospectively evaluated from computer records and outpatient doctor records. In diagnoses were divided groups like urticaria, drug eruption, viral rash diseases, dermatitis, insect bites, infective conditions and pruritus. Results: 61.1% of the patients referred from the emergency service to our outpatient clinic were female and 38.9% male. Total number of patients was 72. The mean age was 39.94±14.10 (18-68) years. Twenty-six (36.1%) patients urticaria, 12 (16.7%) patients dermatitis, 12 (16.7%) patients pruritus, 7 (9.7%) patients infective conditions, 6 (8.3%) patients drug eruption, 5 (6.9%) patients had viral eruptions diseases and 4 (5.6%) patients were diagnosed with insect bites. The youngest group was the patients diagnosed with insect bites with an average of 32.75±15.34 years and the oldest group was the group diagnosed with viral rash with an average of 52.00±14.68 years. The average complaint duration of all patients was 2.47±1.85 (1-10) days. Conclusion: It may be useful to refer patients to dermatology outpatient clinics who are not dermatological emergencies in during working hours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]