{"id":508,"date":"2022-01-17T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=508"},"modified":"2022-01-17T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:35:07","slug":"new-cpg-antibiotic-allergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/new-cpg-antibiotic-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"New CPG: Antibiotic allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Antibiotic_prescribing_in_children_with_reported_penicillin_or_cephalosporin_allergy\/\">Antibiotic prescribing in children with reported penicillin or cephalosporin allergy<\/a> CPG is a new topic and has been reviewed by the CPG committee.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A detailed drug allergy history should be taken to help make appropriate antibiotic choices<\/li>\n<li>Children with a history of an immediate\u00a0<strong>or<\/strong>\u00a0severe reaction to either a penicillin or cephalosporin should avoid drugs from both \u03b2-lactam classes<\/li>\n<li>Children with a history of non-immediate\u00a0<strong>and<\/strong>\u00a0non-severe reactions can be prescribed an antibiotic from an alternate \u03b2-lactam class<\/li>\n<li>Drug allergy testing (drug challenge or skin testing) should take place in controlled settings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotic allergy is a new CPG and will be considered for PIC endorsement in February 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}