Intraoperative anaphylactic shock associated with bacitracin irrigation during revision total knee arthroplasty. A case report

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 339-342

  Antevil, Jared L ^a   Muldoon, Michael P ^a   Battaglia, Michael ^a   Green, Richard ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALLERGEN; BACITRACIN; CEFAZOLIN; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HISTAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; PHENYLEPHRINE; RANITIDINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; PUBLICATION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TEST; SURGICAL WOUND; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION; ANAPHYLAXIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; IMMUNOLOGY; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LAVAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BACITRACIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; IRRIGATION; KNEE JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0037313977     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200302000-00024     Document Type: Article

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