Sensitivities and Allergies

Any allergies and intolerances for this patient that have been entered previously are displayed in red on the first line of the bottom pane of the Select Drug screen.

Allergies are entered in Add - Drug Allergy and Intolerance (see Adding a Drug Allergy/Adverse Reaction).

If a record of No Known Allergy has been recorded, this will also be displayed. No known allergies can be recorded from either the Alert form or Absence of Condition, Clinical Entities. See Adding No Known Allergies.

If no allergy record has been recorded, then No drugallergy status recorded is shown.

If a patient has a recorded allergy to a drug, and a drug with the same ingredients (not drug class)is then selected from the Drug Select screen, when you finally accept this drug on the Therapy - Add screen, a warning message displays on a Drug Sensitivities screen, see Drug Allergy/Insensitivity Warning.

Note - If you try and prescribe an item which is marked as Potentially Fatal (in Severity) on an Allergy/Adverse record, you will be prevented from doing so with the message: It will not be possible to prescribe this item due to the presence of potentially fatal reactions.