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: Tags: Paediatr Anaesth Source Type: research