"AAP Updates Guidance on Epinephrine Use for Anaphylaxis"
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) confirms in a new report that epinephrine is the medication of choice for the first-aid treatment of anaphylaxis and updates a 2007 report on how it should be used most effectively. "All other medications, including H1-antihistamines and bronchodilators such as albuterol, provide adjunctive treatment but do not replace epinephrine," write lead authors Scott Sicherer, MD, chief of the division of allergy and immunology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, and Estelle R. Simons, MD, professor of pediatrics at the University of Manitoba, and colleagues from the Section on Allergy and Immunology Executive Committee. Learn more.