This customizable document, Care of the Latex Sensitive Patient, is taken from MCN Healthcare's Wound Management 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.

MCN provides more than 80 health care specific policy and procedure manuals for Acute Care Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health, Home Health, Physician Practice, and Long Term Care. MCN's policy and procedure manuals focus on the latest healthcare "hot topic" issues related to patient safety and prevention of medical healthcare errors.

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:
	...include: Patients with neural tube defects i.e., myelomeningocele or spina bifida. Patients with chronic bladder catheterizations. Patients with occupational exposure i.e., workers in the latex industry and healthcare workers. Patients that have had multiple operations. Patients with a history of atopy 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...