Erschienen in:
01.04.2012 | Letter
Accuracy in diagnosis of allergy to β-lactams
verfasst von:
Javier Iglesias-Souto, Ruperto González, Paloma Poza-Guedes, Inmaculada Sanchez-Machín, Victor Matheu
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Ausgabe 2/2012
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Excerpt
We have read the interesting paper recently published in
Critical Care [
1]. In the issue of pharmacodynamics of β-lactams we missed a particular subject: allergy, subtle but sometimes important in intensive and critical care units since clinicians usually manage patients labelled as 'allergic' without having been studied and based only on clinical history [
2]. This creates a health resource problem and leads to use alternative treatments in most cases with a higher cost [
3]. …