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 .
Dept of Anaesthesia, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Hvidovre, Denmark
Dept. of Anaesthesia, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Hvidovre, Denmark
Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France
Malcom Randall VAMC, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Mason District Hospital, Havana, Illinois, United States
CCOP - Iowa Oncology Research Association, Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Kewanee Hospital, Kewanee, Illinois, United States
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