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 ...

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 ...

Kaléo, a global leader in drug-delivery device combinations and auto-injector innovation and the makers of the only epinephrine auto-injector with voice guidance, AUVI-Q ® (epinephrine injection), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington County Public Schools employees won't be held liable in most cases for using an EpiPen or generic versions on those suffering severe allergic reactions while in school. The Board of ...

The FDA recently approved the first needle-free epinephrine product (neffy), an alternative to injectable epinephrine (EpiPen) for anaphylaxis and other allergic reactions -- and I will be prescribing ...

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 ...