Allergy alerts - the incidence of parentally reported allergies in children presenting for general anaesthesia.
CONCLUSION: Only the minority of parent-reported allergies in paediatric surgical patients were specialist confirmed and likely to be clinically relevant. Self-reported food allergy is commonly specialist verified, reactions to medications were generally not. Over-reporting of allergies is increasingly common and limits clinician choice of medications. Better education of patients and their families and more timely verification or dismissal of parent-reported reactions is urgently needed. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
PMID: 30414337 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Paediatric Anaesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Sommerfield DL, Sommerfield A, Schilling A, Slevin L, Lucas M, von Ungern-Sternberg BS Tags: Paediatr Anaesth Source Type: research
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