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Comparative Study
Appropriate use of local anaesthetic for venous cannulation.
- N Harrison, B T Langham, and D G Bogod.
- Department of Anaesthesia, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
- Anaesthesia. 1992 Mar 1;47(3):210-2.
AbstractA departmental survey indicated that the large majority of anaesthetists believed that injection of local anaesthetic before insertion of an intravenous cannula was unnecessary if a cannula of 18 gauge or smaller was used, because injection of local anaesthetic would be more painful than insertion of the cannula. A study was undertaken to test this hypothesis. The results showed that intravenous cannulation with a cannula of 18, 20 or 22 gauge was significantly (p less than 0.006) more painful than a subcutaneous injection of 1% lignocaine. We recommend that subcutaneous injection of local anaesthetic should be considered before insertion of any size of intravenous cannula.
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