Surgery anesthesia, can a person be tested ahead of time to see if they are allergic to the anesthesia ?
I know which in singular cases, people can be pestilent allergic to a anesthesia used for surgery. Can people be tested forward of time to have certain they have been not allergic ?
Scott H is right, although technically, MH is not an allergy. Patients just understand it better that way.
Most of the "allergies" to anesthetic agents I've seen are actually known and expected side effects, for example, itching with morphine, nausea with codeine/ percocet/ morphine/ demerol, drops in blood pressure or heart rate (most of our drugs are cardiac depressants), fast heart rate with epinephrine…
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Pangolin
June 11th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Scott H is right, although technically, MH is not an allergy. Patients just understand it better that way.
Most of the "allergies" to anesthetic agents I've seen are actually known and expected side effects, for example, itching with morphine, nausea with codeine/ percocet/ morphine/ demerol, drops in blood pressure or heart rate (most of our drugs are cardiac depressants), fast heart rate with epinephrine…
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