According to World Today News, a groundbreaking study reveals that 95 percent of children treated for acute allergic reactions with epinephrine in emergency rooms could be safely discharged within two hours, and 98 percent within four hours, a finding that could substantially reduce hospital overcrowding and healthcare costs. The research, led by experts at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine—including study co-author Christian D. Pulcini, M.D., M.Ed., M.P.H., Larner assistant professor of emergency medicine, an attending physician at the UVM Children’s Hospital—and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, analyzed data from more than 5,000 children across 31 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada.

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Read the study in Lancet