Treating Anaphylaxis

Title: Treating Anaphylaxis
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Treating Anaphylaxis
In the emergency setting, anaphylaxis is a dangerous, life threatening condition that must be treated in an aggressive and timely fashion. Anaphylaxis is a condition related to acute allergic reactions. Following the body's exposure to the offending allergen, there are common systemic reactions. The most serious reactions involve the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, but the gastrointestinal, dermatologic, and genitourinary systems are often involved causing varied symptoms such as urticaria, flushing, angioedema, bronchospasm, hypotension, cardiac arrythmias, …showed first 75 words of 851 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 851 total…of identifying alternative treatments for anaphylaxis. I had mistakenly assumed that there are a host of viable and effective treatment regiments for anaphylactic shock. What I discovered was that as of today, the only universally accepted therapy for acute anaphylaxis is... epinephrine. Due to it's alpha and beta adrinergic effects epinephrine is miraculously suited for anaphylaxis. It almost seems to be a natural antidote, a wonder drug with singular abilities in the treatment of anaphylaxis.

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