Woman injecting herself in the thigh. The 60-year-old male patient presented to the ED complaining of "the worst pain in his life" in his right thigh. A rare case of clostridial gas gangrene following ...

My son Thomas has carried around a needle since he entered kindergarten at the age of 5. That was a big responsibility for a small child to carry an injector loaded with lifesaving epinephrine, but ...

Woman’s hand holding a unused epinephrine Auto injector. The device is commonly used to treat the life threatening immune response known as anaphylaxis. A survey explored triggers for use of ...

A brief educational module for internal medicine residents was associated with improved confidence when counseling patients with food allergies on the use of self-injectable epinephrine, a small study ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A sublingual film may be able to deliver epinephrine as effectively as intramuscular injections and provide an alternate pathway for urgent treatment of allergic anaphylaxis, a ...

Doctors prescribe EpiPen (epinephrine injection) to treat anaphylaxis from any cause, including food and medication allergies. Use EpiPen as soon as symptoms start or just after exposure to a known ...

Patients and general practitioners lack knowledge of how and when to use devices to inject adrenaline after anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions), finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Epinephrine autoinjectors may have little effect on surviving anaphylaxis events. Research is needed in ...

The pharmacodynamics profile for 13.2-mg IN epinephrine in the opposite or same nostrils was comparable to that of the 0.3-mg autoinjector and 0.5-mg manual syringe. Intranasal (IN) epinephrine is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 96.1% of caregivers said they know how to use their child’s autoinjector. 33.1% of caregivers removed the ...

A timely injection of epinephrine can save the life of a person experiencing an allergic reaction. But what if the syringe is jammed? Now, a U.S. company is recalling its version of the critical ...