The Clinical Characteristics and Emergent Treatments of Patients with Anaphylactic Shock

  • Guoxiang Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18686/aem.v5i3.11
Keywords: Anaphylactic shock, Clinical characteristic, Emergent treatment

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the clinical characteristics of patients with anaphylactic shock, and discuss the appropriate emergent treatments. Methods: 18 cases of anaphylactic shock patients received emergent treatments in our hospital from October 2009 to October 2011 were randomly selected. Retrospective analysis was made on the basic information such as clinical characteristics, emergency treatments, etc. Results: Through retrospective analysis, it was found out that the drug-induced anaphylactic shock accounted for 88.89%, biotoxins-induced anaphylactic shock accounted for 5.55%, and blood transfusion-induced anaphylactic shock accounted for 5.55%. The main clinical characteristics of anaphylactic shock are: the illness occurred suddenly, developed fast, hard to predict, without indication, and can cause death, etc. The recovery rate reached 94.44% after emergent treatments, but there was only 1 case of anaphylactic shock patients who died because of not getting timely treatment. Conclusion: Understanding the clinical characteristics of anaphylactic shock, timely and effective treatment measures are the keys of successful treatment.

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Published
2018-03-19
Issue
Vol 5 No 3 (2016)
Section
Review Article

Copyright (c) 2015 Guoxiang Zhang

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