Local lidocaine injection shows a similar early anesthetic effect in adults with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and healthy ...

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 ...

(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing a loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), a lidocaine spray is safe and effective for local anesthesia, according to a study published online Aug. 5 in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During multilevel spinal fusion, lidocaine may be used for balanced anesthesia with little impact on the ...

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 ...

Of course, like every drug, too much lidocaine can be harmful. A large overdose of lidocaine, which would be exceedingly unusual in a dentist's office, could lead to inhibition of the brain's normal ...

Patients given ester-based local anesthetics may be at greater risk of having serious complications when they are administered numbing agents, according to a study published on March 31 in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of tumescent anesthesia allows for equal anesthetic distribution across large areas while decreasing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deaths from lidocaine poisonings more than doubled since 2010, calls to poison control centers suggested. Calls about local anesthetic poisonings decreased by 23%, mainly due to fewer non-lidocaine ...