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Guideline for acute therapy and management of anaphylaxis

S2 Guideline of the German Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology (DGAKI), the Association of German Allergologists (AeDA), the Society of Pediatric Allergy and Environmental Medicine (GPA), the German Academy of Allergology and Environmental Medicine (DAAU), the German Professional Association of Pediatricians (BVKJ), the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI), the Swiss Society for Allergy and Immunology (SGAI), the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI), the German Society of Pharmacology (DGP), the German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine (DGPM), the German Working Group of Anaphylaxis Training and Education (AGATE) and the patient organization German Allergy and Asthma Association (DAAB)

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Abbreviations

ACE:

Angiotensin-converting enzyme

FiO2 :

Fraction of inspired oxygen

HES:

Hydroxyethyl starch

NaCl:

odium chloride

NSAID:

Nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs

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  1. Dept. Dermatology and Allergology Biederstein, Christine Kuehne-Center Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Technical University Munich, Biedersteinerstr. 29, 80802, Munich, Germany

    Johannes Ring & Knut Brockow

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pneumonology and Immunology, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

    Kirsten Beyer

  3. University Department of Dermatology, Tübingen, Germany

    Tilo Biedermann & Jörg Fischer

  4. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Andreas Bircher

  5. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Dorothea Duda

  6. Pediatric practice Laurensberg, Aachen, Germany

    Frank Friedrichs

  7. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Thomas Fuchs

  8. Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

    Uwe Gieler

  9. Department of Dermatology of the University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany

    Thilo Jakob

  10. Center for Rhinology and Allergology Wiesbaden, ENT Dept. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Ludger Klimek & Oliver Pfaar

  11. St.-Marien-Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Lars Lange

  12. Department of Dermatology, University Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Hans F. Merk

  13. DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend, Berlin, Germany

    Bodo Niggemann

  14. Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Deutschland

    Bernhard Przybilla & Franziska Ruëff

  15. Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Ernst Rietschel

  16. German Allergy and Asthma Association, Mönchengladbach, Germany

    Sabine Schnadt

  17. Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

    Roland Seifert

  18. Institute for Surgical Research, Philipps University of Marburg, Berlin, Germany

    Helmut Sitter

  19. Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Eva-Maria Varga

  20. Department of Dermatology Venereology and Allergology, Allergie-Centrum-Charité, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

    Margitta Worm

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Cite this as: Ring J, Beyer K, Biedermann T, Bircher A, Duda D, Fischer J et al. Guideline for acute therapy and management of anaphylaxis — S2 Guideline of DGAKI, AeDA, GPA, DAAU, BVKJ, ÖGAI, SGAI, DGAI, DGP, DGPM, AGATE and DAAB. Allergo J Int 2014; 23: 96–112 DOI 10.1007/s40629-014-0009-1

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Ring, J., Beyer, K., Biedermann, T. et al. Guideline for acute therapy and management of anaphylaxis. Allergo J Int 23, 96–112 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40629-014-0009-1

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