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Podcast 600: Penicillin Allergy?
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:02:59
Publish Date: 2020-09-29 10:00:00
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Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD

Educational Pearls:

  • True allergies to penicillin compared to reported allergies from patients ranges around 10%
  • Recent study took patients undergoing sensitivity tests and developed the PEN(icillin)-FAST score to address reported penicillin allergies
  • PEN-FAST has four components for a total score of 0-4:

o   F = five years or less since prior reaction.

o   A = Angioedema/Anaphylaxis.

o   S = Severe cutaneous reaction (rash).

o   T = Treatment, did they require treatment for a reaction?

  • Patients with a  score of 0 had
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