Allergy to local anesthetics: Reality or myth?

Presse Medicale

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 753-757

  Malinovsky, Jean Marc ^a   Chiriac, Anca M ^b   Tacquard, Charles ^c   Mertes, Paul Michel ^c   Demoly, Pascal ^b  

^a HÔPITAL MAISON BLANCHE   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG ADDITIVE; EPINEPHRINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PRESERVATIVE; PRILOCAINE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALLERGIC REACTION; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRADYCARDIA; CHEST TIGHTNESS; COMA; DRUG ABSORPTION; FAINTNESS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDICAL HISTORY; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLOR; PANIC; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; RASH; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN TEST; SPASMOPHILIA; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS;

EID: 84990945020     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2016.05.011     Document Type: Short Survey

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