My wife is allergic to contrast dye. When this first happened and her throat was closing up, the nurses ran around not prepared until a doctor finally came up with an antihistamine and luckily she could still swallow it.
No idea why they didn’t prepare for this.
Wow- that’s pretty bad. They absolutely should, have emergency meds on hand- I know when I get tests done that they often have trainees doing the job, maybe a trainee wasn’t fami,iar with everything yet.?
(Love when I get trainees for it placement- that’s always good for a fun time of bleeding profusely lol... not actually that bad, but they do botch the job more often than not and have to bring in a real nurse)