• Neurology · Jun 1993

    Response to intravenous lidocaine infusion differs based on clinical diagnosis and site of nervous system injury.

    • B S Galer, K V Miller, and M C Rowbotham.
    • Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.
    • Neurology. 1993 Jun 1;43(6):1233-5.

    AbstractWe analyzed retrospectively pain relief from an intravenous lidocaine infusion (5 mg/kg/hr for 60 to 90 minutes) in 111 patients with chronic nonmalignant pain. Patients with peripheral nervous system (PNS) injury reported substantially more pain relief than those with central nervous system (CNS) injury or with pain of unknown etiology. These findings suggest that (1) the pathophysiology of chronic pain due to PNS injury is different from that due to CNS injury and idiopathic pain, and that (2) pain due to PNS damage may be suppressible by local anesthetic antiarrhythmic agents.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…