Urgent and after-hours patient care
For urgent consults please contact the Dermatologist on call at 780-407-8822 if conditions for urgent and emergent situations listed in the Dermatology On-Call Referral Guidelines are met.
- Acute, generalized rashes: exanthems, rashes with fever, rashes with blisters or ulcerations on the skin or mucosa.
- Acute, widespread rashes which preclude effective medical treatment or impacts length of patient’s hospital stay.
- Conditions which may result in irreversible complications if not managed promptly (i.e. vasculitis, GVHD, severe infections).
Semi-urgent cases (e.g. melanoma, other skin cancers, widespread rashes not requiring care within 24 h) should not be referred via the on-call dermatologists but via normal channels, indicating the semi-urgent referral on the form.
Request for practical advice
- Wherever possible, referring physicians should send an image in a private, encrypted form to effectively triage and manage the patient.
- If the patient has previously been seen by a dermatologist and is presenting with the same or related condition, please ask the patient to continue to follow-up with their dermatologist to ensure continuity of care.
- For non-urgent cases consider teledermatology doctor-to-doctor consult.