Background Intravenous regional anesthesia is a simple and reliable method for upper extremity surgery. In order to increase the quality of blocks and reduce the amount of pain, many drugs are used with lidocaine. In this study, the effect of ketorolac-lidocaine in intravenous regional anesthesia was investigated. Methods 40 patients undergoing elective upper limb with America Society of Anes...

Introduction and Background: Intravenous lidocaine has been increansingly used as pain treatment in anesthesiology. The aim of this study was to review the scientific literature on the use of lidocaine for perioperative analgesia, a recent technique and still under study to demonstrate its clinical implications. Methodology: Data were derived from MD Consult e Clinical Key (1998-2014). A total ...

background: prolonged qt interval may lead to serious arrhythmias and ventricular fibrillation, hence prevention of the qt-interval prolongation is crucial for physicians. the aim of this study was to assess the influence of intravenous lidocaine on the qtc interval resulting from spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine. methods: in a randomized double blind trial, fifty male patients with mean age ...

Policy Aetna considers parenteral administration of dihydroergotamine (DHE) medically necessary for the treatment of intractable migraine or cluster headache. Prolonged multi-day administration of DHE is considered medically necessary when both of the following conditions are met: 1. Member has intractable cluster headache or severe migraine headache (i.e., status migrainosus, chronic daily hea...

Introduction Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation are known to increase sympathetic activity that may be detrimental to patients with preexisting ischaemic or hypertensive heart disease. Aim The aim of this study was to compare of intravenous and oropharyngeal spray of lidocaine and high dose of fentanyl on systolic and diastolic blood pressures and heart rate of patients over 65 years during...

Objective- To evaluate the total toxic dose of lidocaine and serum lidocaine concentrations resulting in clinical signs of toxicity in chickens. Design- Experimental study Animals- Eight healthy, female, 55-week-old chickens (Lohman breed) weighing 1.45 ± 0.17 kg (mean ± SD) Procedure- A loading dose of 2% lidocaine (4 mg/kg) was administered IV, followed by a constant-rate infusion at a dose o...

BACKGROUND Despite the laparoscopic approach becoming the standard in colorectal surgery, postoperative pain management for minimally invasive surgery is still mainly based on strategies that have been established for open surgical procedures. Patient-controlled epidural and intravenous analgesia are considered standard postoperative analgesia regimens in colorectal surgery. Epidural analgesia ...

BACKGROUND Mechanical stimulation of the airways elicits abrupt cardiovascular responses (CVR) in anesthetized humans. We examined a potential difference in such responses by comparing changes in heart rate (HR) and arterial blood pressure (AP) responses to mechanical stimulation of three different parts of the airways, as well as the effects of localized airway anesthesia with lidocaine on the...