World Health Organization (WHO) includes Epinephrine on its model list of essential medicines. The list expresses the minimum medical requirements for a basic healthcare system.
Epinephrine is a medicine used to treat life-threatening allergic reactions caused by insect bites or stings, foods, medications, latex, and other substances.
Uses of Epinephrine
- Treatment of severe allergic reactions caused by insect bites or stings, foods, medications, latex, and other substances,
- Treatment of anaphylaxis caused by unknown substances or triggered by exercise,
- Treatment of cardiac arrest,
- Treatment of superficial bleeding,
- Treatment of croup