Fisher M M, Outhred A, Bowey C J
Br J Anaesth. 1987 Jun;59(6):690-2. doi: 10.1093/bja/59.6.690.
The incidence of a history of allergy, atopy or asthma is greater in patients who undergo life-threatening clinical anaphylaxis to anaesthetic drugs. However, because the incidence is low, the presence of such a history is not a reliable predictor of the likelihood of a reaction in an individual patient, and does not indicate that the patient should be investigated or pretreated, or that the selection of drug(s) be altered to reduce the likelihood of a reaction.
