EpiPen (epinephrine) is a prescription drug-device combination product that’s used as an emergency treatment for severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. The drug comes inside a prefilled ...
An initial dose of 0.3 mg intramuscular (IM) epinephrine was tied to a greater escalation of care than a dose of 0.5 mg in patients with anaphylaxis, a retrospective single-center study found. The ...
Neffy nasal spray shows comparable efficacy to IM epinephrine for type I allergic reactions, with 92.3% symptom resolution after 1 dose.
When efforts to resuscitate a child after cardiac arrest are unsuccessful despite the administration of an initial dose of epinephrine, it is unclear whether the next dose of epinephrine (i.e., the ...
April 22, 2004 — High-dose epinephrine rescue therapy after an initial standard dose is not beneficial in the treatment of children with in-hospital cardiac arrest, according to the results of a ...