Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has published a practice advisory on local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) called “Guidelines for the Management of Severe Local ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anaesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade, finds an analysis of National Poison Data System (NPDS) reports, ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

Patients with traumatic injuries who are treated in the emergency room are susceptible to opioid-related adverse drug effects. Increased use of regional anesthesia can be helpful in the effort to ...

A new study published in the Feb. 2012 issue of Anesthesiology found that the type of lipid emulsion used to reverse toxicity of local anesthetics may change the effectiveness of the reversal, ...