Midazolam and Ketamine Hypersensitivity in a Four Year Old Child | Zendy

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Midazolam and Ketamine Hypersensitivity in a Four Year Old Child

Author(s) -

Zeynep Arıkan Ayyıldız,

Sakine Işık,

Şule Çağlayan Sözmen,

Dilek Tezcan,

Özkan Karaman,

Nevin Uzuner

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

asthma allergy immunology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1308-9234

DOI - 10.21911/aai.17

Subject(s) - ketamine , midazolam , medicine , anesthesia , antibiotics , allergy , sedation , immunology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Hypersensitivity reactions during anesthesia are rarer in childhood when compared with adults. In both children and adults, neuromuscular blocking agents are the most frequently incriminated drugs in this setting followed by antibiotics. Benzodiazepines and ketamine are generally regarded as exceptional drugs regarding allergy. In this report, we present a 4-year old child who developed urticarial lesions during anesthesia and was found to have hypersensitivity to both midazolam and ketamine when diagnostic tests were performed.

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