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Table 2 Doses of adrenaline in mg, based on body weight in kilogram, recommended by national authorities and or scientific societies

From: International recommendations on epinephrine auto-injector doses often differ from standard weight-based guidance: a review and clinical proposals

  1. Brown colour indicates 0.1 mg adrenaline per autoinjector. Yellow colour indicates 0.15 mg adrenaline per autoinjector. Light yellow colour indicates that the dose can be prescribed by allergy specialists. Yellow text within blue or red colour indicates that either dose can be used. Blue colour indicates 0.3 mg adrenaline per autoinjector. Red colour indicates 0.5 mg adrenaline per autoinjector
  2. Data collected during 2020 and 2021 from publications, scientific societies and or personal contacts. The vertical, black dotted lines indicate the Pan-European recommended weight for the use of 0.15 mg adrenaline. Turkey and Israel are not European countries geographically, however, members of the EAACI. (References used in Table 2, [26,27,28,29]).
  3. WAO World Allergy Organization, AAAAI, American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, ACAAI American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, EAACI European Axademy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, ASCIA Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy