This customizable document, Care of the Latex Sensitive Patient, is taken from MCN Healthcare's Cardiopulmonary Services Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry's leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Care of the Latex Sensitive Patient:

	POLICY: The hospital staff will ensure that latex-sensitive patients will not come into contact with products made of latex. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: Latex exposure can cause a local allergic reaction. Symptoms of a local reaction might be itching, redness or urticaria. Latex exposure may cause a systemic anaphylactic reaction. A systemic reaction might manifest as difficulty in breathing, anxiety, palpitations, chest tightness and pain, hypotension, facial and peripheral edema and shock. Even a trivial exposure may result in a cardiorespiratory arrest. Patients at high-risk for latex...
Second excerpt:
	...and multiple allergies. Those patients with a history of an allergic reaction after touching balloons, rubber gloves or powder from rubber gloves, dental dams, latex consumer products and medical devices. Patients with a history of asthma, hay fever, allergy to bananas, avocados, pears, chestnuts, celery, fig, papaya or passion fruit. Those patients that have experienced an anaphylactic reaction during surgery, urinary catheterization, rectal or vaginal examination and/or bladder...