According to aesthetic nurse prescriber and NHS emergency department (ED) nurse Julia Mansell, there has been an increasing number of cosmetic complications presenting to her ED at King’s College Hospital London over the last year. The NHS does not currently collect data on complications that present due to aesthetic procedures, but in Mansell’s hospital the rise was enough to enlist the help of the Complications in Medical Aesthetics Collaborative (CMAC), which has since set out a plan to deliver educational presentations to emergency departments across the UK.
Mansell explains, “I was recently contacted by one of the emergency nurse practitioners because a patient had presented with periorbital cellulitis and hardening of filler, four weeks post tear trough treatment. The original injector was not able to manage the complication and referred the patient to their local emergency…
