Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health
11:30 am
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
As regards Deputy Sandra McLellan's comments on the EpiPen, I do not want to get into a clinical row with anybody. Certainly, if a person has cardiac arrhythmia of a particular nature and is administered adrenalin, it could kill him or her. It can also contribute to hypertension, with rather unpleasant, unfortunate and even catastrophic consequences. There are issues that require further elaboration, about which there is no question. The last thing we want to see is somebody who is untrained delivering it in the wrong circumstances.
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