A Fatality Occurring During Tumescent Liposuction
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CASE REPORT: Over the past decade, liposuction has become the most frequently performed procedure in aesthetic plastic surgery in many countries although it should not be considered without complications. Tumescent local anesthesia is subcutaneous infiltration of very dilute lidocaine and epinephrine to produce subcutaneous swelling. Mepivacaine has never been mentioned to be used in this kind of surgery. We report a case of overdose with mepivacaine and lidocaine in a 38-year-old patient who died during a procedure of tumescent liposuction of abdomen and both thighs in an outhospital clinic. According to one witness, the victim suffered an episode of tonic-clonic convulsion. When the emergency medical services arrived the patient was under cardiac arrest and the cardiopulmonary resuscitation measures were of no use.
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