Epinephrine injection is used for emergency treatment of severe allergic reactions (including anaphylaxis) to insect bites or stings, medicines, foods, or other substances. It is also used to treat anaphylaxis caused by unknown substances or triggered by exercise.
⚫ Epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) is a hormone and neurotransmitter.
It increases heart rate, contracts blood vessels, dilates air passages and participates in the fight-or- flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.Chemically, epinephrine is a
catecholamine, a monoamine produced only by the adrenal glands from the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine.
. The term adrenaline is derived from the Latin roots ad- and renes and literally means on the kidney, in reference to the adrenal gland’s anatomic location on the kidney.
What is epinephrine?
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