Lumbar epidural blockade has been used in 317 subjects to compare the analgesic properties of the hydrochloride salts of lignocaine and prilocaine in 2 per cent and 3 per cent concentrations, with and without 1/200,000 adrenaline. Prilocaine has a slower onset and spread of analgesia than lignocaine. Duration of action and intensity of motor blockade is greater with plain prilocaine than with p...

BACKGROUND Lidocaine-prilocaine cream (EMLA) is currently standard therapy to alleviate procedural pain in children. One of the disadvantages of lidocaine-prilocaine is the need to wait for 60 minutes for adequate skin anesthesia. Amethocaine gel (Ametop) is a new topical anesthetic that requires a shorter application time for skin anesthesia. OBJECTIVES To compare the relative efficacy and s...

DESCRIPTION Oraqix (lidocaine and prilocaine periodontal gel,) 2.5%/2.5% is a microemulsion in which the oil phase is a eutectic mixture of lidocaine and prilocaine in a ratio of 1:1 by weight. This eutectic mixture has a melting point below room temperature, therefore both local anesthetics exist as liquid oils rather than as crystals. Oraqix contains poloxamer excipients, which show reversibl...

The solvation of prilocaine has been investigated in pure water and in an amphiphilic methanol/water solution using a combination of neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution augmented by Empirical Potential Structure Refinement (EPSR) simulations. This combination of techniques allows for details of the solvation structure on the atomic scale to be unravelled. The hydration of prilocaine ...

eutectic mixture of lidocaine and prilocaine (EMLA cream): comparison with placebo cream and no local premedication. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 1987;31: 735-9. 8 Hallen B, Olsson GL, Uppfeldt A. Pain-free venepuncture. Effect of timing of application of local anaesthetic cream. Anaesthesia 1984;39:%9-72. 9 Hopkins CS, Buckley CJ, Bush GH. Pain-free injection in infants. Use of a lignocaine-priloca...

The lidocaine-prilocaine cream (EMLATM) effectively reduces the pain from debridement of chronic leg ulcers. Studies have demonstrated that when applied to leg ulcers, plasma concentrations of the local anaesthetics are well below the threshold for CNS toxicity. However, there are minimal pharmacokinetic data available from EMLA application to burn wounds. This study evaluated EMLA cream for de...

We herein present a patient with delayed-type allergic hypersensitivity against prilocaine leading to spreading eczematous dermatitis after subcutaneous injections for local anesthesia with prilocaine. Prilocaine allergy was proven by positive skin testing and subcutaneous provocation, whereas the evaluation of other local anesthetics - among them lidocaine, articaine and mepivacaine - did not ...

The generation of methaemoglobin is a rare but potential life-threatening side effect in the use of the local anaesthetic prilocaine. It is currently only possible to ensure the diagnosis by means of blood tests. Rapid noninvasive diagnosis is desirable, especially for risk patients. Using a pig model, we induced methaemoglobinemia via application of dimethyl aminophenol and prilocaine (setup I...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relative efficacy of lidocaine-prilocaine and tetracaine for procedural pain in children. METHODS Systematic review was performed (MEDLINE1990-June 2001) of all studies comparing the efficacy of these 2 modalities of pain relief in children undergoing painful cutaneous procedures. Search terms included lidocaine, prilocaine, tetracaine, and anesthesia. RESULTS Eig...

Drug repositioning is an approach of significant translatability, and the present study was undertaken to screen a collection of FDA approved small-molecule clinical compounds for identification of novel radioprotective agents. Screening of JHCCL (Johns Hopkins Clinical Compound Library), a collection of 1,400 FDA approved small molecules, lead to identification of prilocaine hydrochloride, a l...