Description
This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Gentry Wilkerson, Sal J. Suau, focuses on Allergy, Inflammatory, and Autoimmune Disorders in Emergency Medicine. This issue is one of four selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Amal Mattu. Topics include: Allergy/Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis: Treatment in the ED, Drug Allergies, Food Allergies, Allergic acute coronary syndrome - Kounis Syndrome; Hereditary and Acquired Angioedema, Immunotherapy, Sarcoidosis, Spondyloarthritides and Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases.
Table of Contents
Overview of Allergy and AnaphylaxisAnaphylaxis: Emergency Department TreatmentAnaphylaxis: After the Emergency DepartmentDrug Hypersensitivity ReactionsEvaluation and Management of Food Allergies in the Emergency DepartmentAllergic Acute Coronary Syndrome—Kounis SyndromeAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor–Induced AngioedemaHereditary AngioedemaMimics of Allergy and Angioedema: Scombroid, Mast Cell Activation Disorders, and Hereditary Alpha TryptasemiaImmune-based Therapies—What the Emergency Physician Needs to KnowSarcoidosisSpondyloarthritidesAutoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis
