Recommandations pour le diagnostic des accidents allergiques périopératoires Guidelines for the diagnosis of perioperative allergic reactions

A revision of the French guidelines for the management of hypersensitivity reactions in anaesthesia was required by the national societies of anaesthesia-reanimation (SFAR) and of allergy (SFA). The experts worked according to the GRADE method. A short text and a long text must be published. We report and comment here the main topics of the third chapter ‘‘diagnosis of the reaction of immediate hypersensitivity reaction’’. # 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.