Current medical research and opinion
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Meta Analysis
Lidocaine patch for acute pain management: a meta-analysis of prospective controlled trials.
Local anesthetic is one of the cornerstones of multimodal analgesia. We investigated the efficacy of the lidocaine patch for acute pain management. ⋯ The limitations were a small number of included studies, potential biases from some unblinded studies, clinical heterogeneity between studies, and incomplete reported data for adjunct analgesics.