tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Role of vasopressin in the treatment of anaphylactic shock in a child undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Role of vasopressin in the treatment of anaphylactic shock in a child undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease: a case report. | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Role of vasopressin in the treatment of anaphylactic shock in a child undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease a case report Luca Di Chiara Giulia V Stazi Zaccaria Ricci Angelo Polito Stefano Morelli Chiara Giorni Ondina La Salvia Vincenzo Vitale Eugenio Rossi and Sergio Picardo Address Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Bambino Gesù Hospital Rome Italy Email Luca Di Chiara - dichiaraluca@ Giulia V Stazi - giuliavaleria@ Zaccaria Ricci - Angelo Polito - angpolito@ Stefano Morelli - Chiara Giorni - c_giorni@ Ondina La Salvia - dichiaraluca@ Vincenzo Vitale - Eugenio Rossi - rossi@ Sergio Picardo - picardo@ Corresponding author Published 5 February 2008 Received 4 August 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 36 doi 1752-1947-2-36 Accepted 5 February 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 36 2008 Di Chiara et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The incidence of anaphylactic reactions during anesthesia is between 1 5000 and 1 25000 and it is one of the few causes of mortality directly related to general anesthesia. The most important requirements in the treatment of this clinical condition are early diagnosis and maintenance of vital organ perfusion. Epinephrine administration is generally considered as the first line treatment of anaphylactic reactions. However recently new pharmacological approaches have been described in the treatment of different forms of vasoplegic shock. Case presentation We describe the case of a child