A nurse has asked the nurse educator if there is any way to predict the severity of a patient's anaphylactic reaction. What would be the nurse's best response?
A) "The faster the onset of symptoms, the more severe the reaction."
B) "The reaction will be about one-third more severe than the patient's last reaction to the same antigen."
C) "There is no way to gauge the severity of a patient's anaphylaxis, even if it has occurred repeatedly in the past."
D) "The reaction will generally be slightly less severe than the last reaction to the same antigen."
Ans: A
Feedback:
The time from exposure to the antigen to onset of symptoms is a good indicator of the severity of the reaction: the faster the onset, the more severe the reaction. None of the other statements is an accurate description of the course of anaphylactic reactions.
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