Resuscitation Foot Necrosis: A New Entity for a Complex Management?

Abstract

As in every medical discipline, resuscitation techniques are regularly progressing, allowing more and more patients to survive. In these departments, acute skin problems are observed, particularly those linked to the use of vasopressive drugs prescribed to maintain a stable patient haemodynamics. Once the acute phase is solved and the patients are stabilised, the consequence of the use of these vasopressive drugs may appear and become the main difficult problem. The context is variable, but most of these patients have presented or still present with prolonged haemodynamic shocks (septic shock, purpura fulminans, etc.).