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- Published on: 29 April 2016
- Published on: 29 April 2016Lidocaine in intravenous regional anaesthesia.Show More
I congratulate the authors on an interesting paper. They mention in their conclusions that a non inferiority study comparing Lidocaine to Prilocaine would be appropriate. I note that Bartholomew and Sloan's paper reviewed around 45000 cases of Prilocaine intravenous regional anaesthesia (IVRA) with no serious side effects including cases where the cuff either failed or was not inflated. A non inferiority study designed t...
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