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 .
Dep. of Urology, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio, United States
Hasbro Children's Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Nanjing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Cleveland Clinic/Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States
Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York, United States
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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