The Infection-Prone Hospital Patient
The Infection-Prone Hospital Patient
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容易感染的医院病人
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
17.3
通讯作者:
A. Pollock
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作者:
A. Pollock
large doses of fl-adrenergic agonist bronchodilators should probably also be excluded. Before being given a canister for self-administration, suitable patients should be investigated routinely to discover the dose he or she needs to inhale to raise the pulse rate by twenty to thirty beats per minute. If this dose was inhaled immediately the patient began to develop angioedema, an amount sufficient to abort the attack might be absorbed. The number of inhalations required should preferably be determined in specialist centres in order to exclude from this treatment the occasional patient who develops a dysrhythmia after inhaling quite small doses of isoprenaline. It is generally agreed that the most effective initial treatment for any patient with anaphylaxis is adrenaline by deep subcutaneous or, if the patient is severely shocked, by intramuscular injection (see, for instance, Lancet 1980, British Medical Journal 1981, Frankland & Lessof 1980, 1981, Lancaster 1980). Patients who have just been stung and who have had a severe reaction in the past are usually frightened and may find themselves unable to open an ampoule and fill a syringe and then inject themselves during a time when their symptoms are increasing in severity. Syringes precharged with adrenaline have not recently been available in the UK (British Medical Journal 1979, Brown 1980), but now can be obtained easily (Ackroyd 1980). It is strongly recommended that any patient who has had a severe reaction and who seems likely to be able to use such a syringe should be given one and taught how to use it. The dose of adrenaline with which the patient should inject himself should be determined in a manner similar to that suggested for determining the dose of inhaled isoprenaline. J F Ackroyd Allergy Clinic St Mary's Hospital, London W21NY