CAN CLINICAL ANAPHYLAXIS TO ANAESTHETIC DRUGS BE PREDICTED FROM ALLERGIC HISTORY?
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- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 59 (6) , 690-692
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/59.6.690
Abstract
The incidence of a history of allergy, atopy or asthma is greater in patients who undergo lifethreatening clinical anaphylaxis to anaesthetic drugs. However, because the incidence is low, the presence of such a history is not a reliable predictor of the likelihood of a reaction in an individual patient, and does not indicate that the patient should be investigated or pretreated, or that the selection of drug(s) be altered to reduce the likelihood of a reaction.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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