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 ...

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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.

Thoracic epidural analgesia provides pain relief superior to that of intravenous lidocaine in the first 24 hours after ...

Local anesthetics such as lidocaine block pain effectively, but they also impair motor and autonomic functions by indiscriminately blocking sodium channels in all neurons. Binshtok et al.

Felipe Hoyos-Foronda injected the 31-year-old woman with the local anesthetic lidocaine, causing her to go into cardiac arrest on March 28, according to a criminal complaint. The woman was taken from ...