performed a single-blind, randomized, prospective study to investigate whether topical lidocaine application by means of a lollipop could provide efficacious local anesthesia. Fifty patients ...
Local anesthetics such as lidocaine block pain effectively, but they also impair motor and autonomic functions by indiscriminately blocking sodium channels in all neurons. Binshtok et al.
An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...