Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intracutaneous lidocaine local anesthesia for skin cancer excision and reconstruction had no reported toxicity ...

Research supports the safety and efficacy of compounded lidocaine plus epinephrine for up to 24 hours at room temperature and ...

Anesthesia is an important part of modern medicine. It’s hard to grasp how in the past people underwent surgeries without numbing their sensations first. Luckily, in the 21 st century, we have a ...

A new study has uncovered how the commonly used local anesthetic drug, lidocaine, activates bitter taste receptors to exert an anti-cancer effect in head and neck cancers. Given its low cost and ready ...

In people with chronic migraine, infusions of the local anesthetic lidocaine may deliver pain relief, reports a study in the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. The aim is to `break the cycle ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anaesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade, finds an analysis of National Poison Data System (NPDS) reports, ...

Between two types of local anesthetics, there are 132 in short supply and 13 available, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Twenty bupivacaine injections from Pfizer are ...

What's the maximum recommended dose for lidocaine or mepivacaine during dental procedures? The answer remains unclear as guidelines published by dental organizations differ from those of manufacturers ...

Study design: Prospective, open label, cross-over-designed clinical study. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an instillation of lidocaine into the bladder with versus without electromotive ...