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DURING TREATMENT FOR HAY FEVER: RECOVERY AFTER THREE INTRACARDIAC INJECTIONS OF EPINEPHRINE

STANLEY J. JOYCE, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1937;60(6):974-981.

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The tragedy of sudden death due to anaphylaxis is its unnecessary occurrence. A fatality which results from a purely optional treatment is difficult to reconcile; that a patient would have lived had such a procedure been omitted is not a consoling thought. Too often death has been caused by a prophylactic measure intended to protect the patient from some disease which he might have escaped even without treatment, as by the use of antitetanus serum. The fatal treatment may have been given to relieve symptoms of a disease not in itself serious, such as hay fever; or the reaction may have followed an error or accident in treatment. Furthermore, most of these tragedies could have been averted with immediate and adequate care during the reaction.

These reflections are well illustrated in the following case of a reaction due to ragweed antigen, in which death seemed imminent for about thirty minutes. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read before the Twentieth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Detroit, March 3, 1936.

Whenever used in the text "epinephrine" is construed to mean a solution of epinephrine hydrochloride (1:1,000).