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Among the adverse effects of vancomycin (apart from nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity), anaphylactoid reactions may occur, which manifest clinically as cutaneous rash, pruritus ('red man' syndrome), hypotension and broncospasm [ 4, 8, 9].
The present study was conducted to investigate the haemodynamic changes that occur following the appearance of pruritus.
In the majority of cases studied pruritus was mild or moderate, and localized on the scalp, face, neck or upper torso.
In our cardiosurgical center vancomycin is administered pro-phylactically before induction of anaesthesia in all patients undergoing open-heart surgery, and in some such patients we have observed the occurrence of pruritus, localized or generalized, during infusion of the antibiotic.
For example, Renz and coworkers [ 11] infused 1 g vancomycin over 10 min to patients scheduled for elective prosthetic joint replacement, and found that 90% of patients had rash and pruritus, and 50% had significant hypotension.