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How Do You Recognize and Treat Perioperative Anaphylaxis?

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A 60-year-old female is scheduled to have an elective umbilical hernia repair. Preoperative evaluation revealed a past medical history of hypertension, obesity, and well-controlled type II diabetes mellitus. Her home medications include lisinopril, 10 mg, once a day, and metformin, 1000 mg, twice a day. The surgical history includes 2 previous cesarean sections and an elective abdominoplasty done at an outside facility. The patient reported no history of complications associated with her prior anesthetic exposure and no history of allergies. Physical examination was relevant for a moderately obese female with good dentition and a Mallampati 2 airway. The patient was given an ASA classification of 2.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 1542 Tulane Ave., Suite 653, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112, USA

    Amit Prabhakar

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, 1542 Tulane Avenue, Suite 659, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112, USA

    Melville Q. Wyche III

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 1542 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112, USA

    Paul Delahoussaye

  4. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Room 656, 1542 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112, USA

    Alan David Kaye

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  1. Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Corey S. Scher

  2. Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Anna Clebone

  3. Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology (Emeritus), Former Assistant Director of Anesthesiology, Bellevue Hospital Center Retired from Department of Anesthesiology, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Sanford M. Miller

  4. Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Bellevue Hospital Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, New York, New York, USA

    J. David Roccaforte

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, Vice Chair Faculty Promotion Associate Director Anesthesia Service Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA

    Levon M. Capan

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Prabhakar, A., Wyche III, M.Q., Delahoussaye, P., Kaye, A.D. (2017). How Do You Recognize and Treat Perioperative Anaphylaxis?. In: Scher, C., Clebone, A., Miller, S., Roccaforte, J., Capan, L. (eds) You’re Wrong, I’m Right. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43169-7_8

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