For refractory pain that has not responded to conventional therapy or if further escalation of treatment is prevented by contraindications or side effects to standard therapies, a continuous infusion of lidocaine may be considered as a single intervention or as a sequence of infusions. Here, we ...
Four Percent Intrauterine Lidocaine Infusion for Pain Management in First-Trimester AbortionsEdelman, Alison MD, MPH; Nichols, Mark D. MD; Leclair, Catherine MD; Jensen, Jeffrey T. MD, MPH Free Access Article OutlineAuthor Information From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon ...
Administration of opioids is one of the common techniques for postoperative pain management, but complications related to opioids leads to use of other methods for pain control. In this study we evaluated the effect of low dose lidocaine infusion for postoperative pain control. Methods: In this ...
Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Keywords: Hip replacement; Knee replacement; Choice of hospital;Patient expectations; SurgeryIntroductionChronic pain is a debilitating condition that...
Perioperative lidocaine infusion improves postoperative outcomes, mostly after abdominal and urologic surgeries. Knowledge of the effect of lidocaine on peripheral surgeries is limited. Presently, we investigated whether intraoperative lidocaine infusion reduced anesthetic consumption, duration of ileus, pain in...
Intravenous lidocaine infusion has been clearly demonstrated as effective for pain in randomized controlled trials, but the belief that cardiac monitoring is required for safe administration is a barrier to access in the palliative care setting. There are also multiple infusion protocols reported in th...
Perioperative intravenous lidocaine infusion for postoperative pain control: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials[J]. Can J Anaesth, 2011, 58(1): 22-37. [2] McCarthy GC, Megalla SA, Habib AS. Impact of intravenous lidocaine infusion on postoperative analgesia and recovery from ...
Objective: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the impact of perioperative intravenous lidocaine infusion on pain management scores, opioid consumption, adverse events and hospital length of stay in patients undergoing spinal surgery. Methods: We included randomized controlled tri...
While administering nerve blocks, care must be taken to avoid injecting into a blood vessel (except in Bier block for extremities) Infusion of lidocaine anesthetic into joints afterarthroscopyor other surgical procedures is an unapproved use; cartilage loss (chondrolysis) can occur ...
Lidocaine, a potent local anesthetic and class I B antiarrhythmic agent, is also recommended in perioperative medicine in the adult population as part of a multimodal approach to pain management12,13. At the same time, recommendations for children do not clearly support its use, and some have ...