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. 2021 Apr 20;7(1):37.
doi: 10.1186/s40981-021-00440-0.

Concurrent positive skin tests to prophylactic antibiotics and rocuronium in two patients with life-threatening anaphylaxis after induction of anesthesia

Masako Yasuda  1 , Katsuyuki Moriwaki  2   3   4   5 , Yasuo M Tsutsumi  6
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Concurrent positive skin tests to prophylactic antibiotics and rocuronium in two patients with life-threatening anaphylaxis after induction of anesthesia

Masako Yasuda et al. JA Clin Rep. .

Abstract

Background: Prophylactic antibiotics and neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA) are two of the major causative agents of anaphylaxis after induction of anesthesia.

Case presentation: One female and one male patients (aged 29 and 69 years, respectively) had Ring and Messmer scale grade III anaphylaxis after administration of prophylactic antibiotics following induction of anesthesia. They showed typical hemodynamic and respiratory features of life-threatening anaphylaxis. Postoperative skin tests in these two patients were positive for antibiotics and concurrently positive for rocuronium.

Conclusions: Our present report suggests the possibility that both prophylactic antibiotics and NMBA concurrently and synergistically enhance anaphylactic reaction and the necessity to differentiate an immune mechanism from non-immune mechanisms when anesthesiologists encounter concurrent positive skin tests for both antibiotics and NMBA.

Keywords: Adrenaline (epinephrine); Anaphylaxis; Anti-bacterial agents; General anesthesia; Neuromuscular blocking agents; Skin tests.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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