Evaluating your patients for a true allergy may significantly impact your practice. When a patient is mislabeled as penicillin allergic, the ramifications are significant.
Whether or not you perform other types of allergy testing, you can make a big impact in your patients' lives by learning more about penicillin allergy and why to consider testing for it.
Learning Objectives:
- Review the history of penicillin and Type 1 IgE mediated hypersensitivity reactions to penicillin
- Outline the benefits to offering penicillin allergy testing in an Otolaryngology practice
- Discuss the implications on patients that are mislabeled with a penicillin hypersensitivity
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