Should lidocaine routinely be used to prevent pain on propofol injection during induction of general anaesthesia or sedation?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Yasser Mandour; Nadir A Ratanshi
- Source
- British journal of hospital medicine (London, England : 2005). 82(1)
- Subject
- Lidocaine
Sedation
Pain relief
Pain
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Anesthesia, General
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Patient satisfaction
medicine
Humans
General anaesthesia
030212 general & internal medicine
Anesthetics, Local
Propofol
Syringe
business.industry
General Medicine
Anesthesia
medicine.symptom
business
Propofol Injection
Anesthetics, Intravenous
medicine.drug
- Language
- ISSN
- 1750-8460
Anaesthetists commonly debate whether lidocaine should be added to propofol for anaesthetic induction. The benefits include pain relief and improved patient satisfaction, but disadvantages include the effect on the emulsion itself, the efficacy of propofol once it has been mixed, and the effect on growth of bacteria in the syringe.