Lidocaine is a short-acting anesthetic. After an injection, lidocaine's effects last an hour or two. Bupivacaine is long-acting, with effects lasting from two to four hours or more.

Despite the frequent use of lidocaine as an anesthetic and its occasional use as a therapeutic agent, reports of ACD from lidocaine and delayed hypersensitivity reactions to it are even more limited.

If you have (PE), you may have heard that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and topical creams and sprays with ...

The American Academy of Dermatologists has deemed megadose concentrations of highly diluted lidocaine of up to 35 to 55 mg/kg to be safe for tumescent infiltration anesthesia, even though the Food ...

performed a single-blind, randomized, prospective study to investigate whether topical lidocaine application by means of a lollipop could provide efficacious local anesthesia. Fifty patients ...

These results suggest that intrarectal application of a large dose (5 g) of lidocaine–prilocaine 30 min before transrectal biopsy can confer a certain degree of anesthesia on not only the anal ...

Side effects of intravenous lidocaine can be neurologic, cardiovascular or gastrointestinal. Toxicity can occur when used intravenously or rarely when used for anesthesia for topical purposes if a ...

Lidocaine HCl 5mg/mL, 10mg/mL, 15mg/mL, 20mg/mL, 40mg/mL; soln. See full labeling for recommended dosages based on procedures. Epidural anesthesia: administer test dose first; monitor for CNS or ...