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 ...

Lidocaine is a common local anesthetic, but absorbing too much or prolonging exposure increases the chances of a lidocaine overdose. Lidocaine is a local anesthetic and generally safe. However, it is ...

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 ...

Our results suggest that ultrasound guidance, HBV infection and the female sex are risk factors of LAST in LPBs and SNBs. For patients infected with HBV or female patients undergoing LPBs and SNBs, ...

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 ...

Deaths from lidocaine poisonings more than doubled since 2010, calls to poison control centers suggested. Calls about local anesthetic poisonings decreased by 23%, mainly due to fewer non-lidocaine ...

Deaths and poisonings linked to the local anesthetic lidocaine have risen sharply over the past decade, as adverse event rates for other local anesthetics have declined, a new study showed.

After 2010, there was an increase in reports of lidocaine poisoning and reports of lidocaine mortality. HealthDay News — Poisonings and deaths linked to use of local anesthetics decreased over the ...