Be prepared for intraoperative anaphylaxis

Intraoperative anaphylaxis to latex.

This case report describes intraoperative anaphylaxis occurring in a fourteen-year-old female with spina bifida in which latex surgical gloves were incriminated as the aetiologic agent. The patient was non-atopic but since eight years of age she had developed localized angioedema and urticarial skin reactions on exposure to rubber. She had previously undergone several uneventful surgical proced...

Intraoperative anaphylaxis after intravenous atropine.

EDITOR: Although it is commonly used in clinical practice, there is not much awareness of the allergic potential of atropine since there are some reports of adverse reactions but rarely with clinical significance [1]. In the current literature on allergic reactions during anaesthesia, atropine appears in a very small number of patients, unlike the more frequent causative agents such as neuromus...

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Remember back when Medicaid was Medicaid and Medicare was Medicare? These state and federal programs, which respectively provide medical assistance to low-income families and health insurance for individuals with disabilities and the elderly, were complicated enough when they became law as part of the Social Security Act in 1965. Now we've added managed care to the mix.

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Learning to be prepared

Behavioral economics provides several motivations for the common observation that agents appear somewhat unwilling to deviate from recent choices. More recent choices can be more salient than other choices, or more readily available in the agent’s mind. Alternatively, agents may have formed habits, or use rules of thumb. This paper provides discrete-time adjustment processes for strategic games...