Anaphylaxis in children is rare but increasingly reported with food allergies being the most common triggers. The World Allergy Organisation (WAO) characterises severe anaphylaxis as ‘a potentially life-threatening compromise in airway, breathing and/or the circulation’ due to anaphylaxis.
This paper, which follows on from the National Child Mortality Database thematic report on child deaths from asthma or anaphylaxis in England from 2019 to 2023, reviews cases of fatal anaphylaxis to identify if airway, breathing or circulatory failure or a combination of failures was present leading to death in each of these cases.
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