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Chapter 24 - When Amoxicillin Just Doesn’t Cover It

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Michael Carter  and
Marilyn McDougall
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A previously healthy 15-year-old boy presented to his local A&E with a 24-hour history of cough, sore throat and difficulty in breathing. He had seen his GP that morning, who had prescribed a short course of oral amoxicillin. He had taken his first dose of amoxicillin 2 hours before presentation to the A&E and subsequently became progressively tachypnoeic and tachycardic, with some suggestion his lips looked more swollen.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 127 - 134
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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