Allergy, Inflammatory, and Autoimmune Disorders in Emergency Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

R. Gentry Wilkerson (Edited by), Sal J. Suau (Edited by)

9780323835466, Elsevier Health Sciences

Hardback, published 22 November 2021

240 pages
28 x 19 x 2.1 cm, 0.45 kg

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.

Overview of Allergy and Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis: Emergency Department Treatment
Anaphylaxis: After the Emergency Department
Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions
Evaluation and Management of Food Allergies in the Emergency Department
Allergic Acute Coronary Syndrome—Kounis Syndrome
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor–Induced Angioedema
Hereditary Angioedema
Mimics of Allergy and Angioedema: Scombroid, Mast Cell Activation Disorders, and Hereditary Alpha Tryptasemia
Immune-based Therapies—What the Emergency Physician Needs to Know
Sarcoidosis
Spondyloarthritides
Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Subject Areas: Accident & emergency medicine [MMK]