Developments Leading to Forestry Agency's Adoption of Epipen Automatic Syringe and Its Efficacy.

VernacularTitle:林野庁における自動注射器（Ｅｐｉｐｅｎ）の導入後の現状と成果
Author: Shinji SASAKI
Publication Type:Journal Article
From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2000;49(4):618-625
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: Given the outbreak of accidents in which workers, engaged in the management and control of national forests, are stung by wasps, the Forestry Agency has decided to have them carry around and, when anaphylactic shock occurs after a sting, use Epipen, an automatic injector of American makes immediately.
In this paper, we report on the developments that have led to the use of Epipen, the clinical cases for which it was used, and its efficacy. The automatic syringe was used for 10 cases over a period of five years, and the lives of nine of them were saved thanks to its efficacy.
It is hoped that this syringe will be used not just by the Forestry Agency but in a broad range of pre-hospital care sectors.