local anaesthetic


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local anaesthetic

Med a drug that produces local anaesthesia
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BERWICK Infirmary is now offering patients hernia operations after theatre staff received additional training to allow them to carry out the procedure under local anaesthetic.
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Since then dozens of local anaesthetic compounds have been developed and utilised in order to temporarily block conduction from peripheral nerves and or the spinal cord.
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These remedies, whose implementation will be closely monitored by the Commission, will remove the competitive concerns relating to the two firms' activities in betablockers and local anaesthetics.
PHARMACEUTICALS: COMMISSION AUTHORISES MEGA-MERGER BETWEEN ASTRA AND ZENECA, UNDER CONDITIONS
This sequence of pain components is refuted by studies which report that infiltration of trocar sites with local anaesthetic does not provide significant local analgesia.
INTRAPERITONEAL AND LOCAL INFILTRATION OF BUPIVACAINE FOR PAIN RELIEF AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY
In the article by Altuntas et al., entitled "Re: Comment on: Comparison of Intraabdominal and Trocar Site Local Anaesthetic Infiltration on Postoperative Analgesia After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy" that was published in the August 2017 issue of the Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, the page numbers of the first reference were not included.
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After a skin wheel with local anaesthetic approximately 1 cm above the mid clavicular point, 22G 5 cm insulated Stimuplex needle was introduced through the skin and directed just above and posterior to the subclavian pulse and advanced slowly in caudal, medial, and posterior direction.
The effects of dexamethasone and potassium chloride as additives to local anaesthetic in supraclavicular brachial plexus block: a randomised controlled study
"I'd had an upper eyelift under local anaesthetic a few years ago and it was fine.
IT TOOK JUST TWO WEEKS TO GIVE MYSELF A HUGE LIFT; LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL Hairdresser Shirley was fed-up seeing her saggy skin and double chin in the mirror so she had cosmetic surgery under a local anaesthetic, was out of the clinic the same day and had stitches removed within a fortnight
TABLE 2: SUCCESS OF LOCAL ANAESTHETIC AGENT AND TECHNIQUE (n=60)
EVALUATION OF ANESTHETIC EFFICACY OF 4% ARTICAINE AS BUCCAL INFILTRATION VS 2% LIDOCAINE AS IANB IN THE MANDIBULAR 1ST MOLAR WITH IRREVERSIBLE PULPITIS
Lignocaine (lidocaine) is the local anaesthetic most frequently used as it is effective acts
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But, Prof Whiteley says, all varicose vein treatments should be done under local anaesthetic as walk-in, walk-out procedures.
Could a new 'superglue' end the pain of varicose veins? A NEW PROCEDURE IS PROMISING TO SEAL UP VEINS PAIN FREE AND IN MINUTES. MICHELE O' CONNOR LOOKS AT THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO SUFFERERS
The introduction of cocaine in 1884 as a local anaesthetic agent started an entire new era in medicine.
Local anaesthetic agent systemic toxicity
Multiple injections of local anaesthetic were performed in the cervical paravertebral space between the C-2 and C-4 transverse processes.
A simple method for blocking the deep cervical nerve plexus using an ultrasound-guided technique

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