Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
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J Am Podiatr Med Assoc · May 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialReducing the pain of local 1% lidocaine infiltration with a preceding bacteriostatic saline injection: a double-blind prospective trial.
Lidocaine injection for local anesthesia is a common podiatric medical procedure. We tested the hypothesis that injection of bacteriostatic saline solution containing 0.9% benzyl alcohol before the lidocaine infiltration can reduce the burning caused by lidocaine injection. ⋯ The fact that 40% of the intervention visual analog scale pain scores for lidocaine injections were 0 suggests that a near painless lidocaine injection technique is an achievable goal and that the present technique is a simple and inexpensive method of reducing the pain of lidocaine injections.