Ever since its discovery and availability for sale and use in the late 1940s, lidocaine has become an exceptionally commonly used medication . In particular, lidocaine's principal mode of action in acting as a local anesthetic that numbs the sensations of tissues means the agent is indicated for facilitating local anesthesia for a large variety of surgical p...
Lidocaine is an anesthetic of the amide group indicated for production of local or regional anesthesia by infiltration techniques such as percutaneous injection and intravenous regional anesthesia by peripheral nerve block techniques such as brachial plexus and intercostal and by central neural techniques such as lumbar and caudal epidural blocks .
University of Tennessee Chattanooga Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
MUHC, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hopital Tenon, Paris, France
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ambulatory Surgery Center, Paducah, Kentucky, United States
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