Approach to patients with suspected hypersensitivity to local anesthetics

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 334, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 190-196

  Phillips, Joshua F ^a   Yates, Anne B ^a,b   Deshazo, Richard D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug allergy; Drug hypersensitivity; Local anesthetic allergy

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; ADRENALIN; ALLERGEN; ARTICAINE; BENZOCAINE; BUPIVACAINE; BUTYLCAINE; CHLOROETHANE; CHLOROPROCAINE; CINCHOCAINE; COCAINE; DERMAFLEX; DRUG ADDITIVE; DYCLONINE; FLUORACAINE; HAPTEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEPIVACAINE; METHYL PARABEN; OCTOCAINE; PRAMOCAINE; PRESERVATIVE; PRILOCAINE; PROCAINE; PROXYMETACAINE; ROPIVACAINE; SEPTOCAINE; SODIUM METABISULFITE; SOLARCAINE; SULFITE; TETRACAINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRACTIN;

ALLERGY TEST; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ASYSTOLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA; FLUSHING; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; NAUSEA; PALLOR; PARESTHESIA; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QRS COMPLEX; RESTLESSNESS; SEIZURE; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TEST; SWELLING; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URTICARIA;

EID: 34548685624     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181406001     Document Type: Review

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