Topical tetracaine attenuates the pain of infiltration of buffered lidocaine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1001-1005

  Bartfield, Joel M ^a   Lee, Fayzel S ^a   Raccio Robak, Nancy ^a   Salluzzo, Richard F ^a   Asher, Shellie L ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

laceration; lidocaine; local anesthesia; tetracaine; topical anesthesia; wound

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; TETRACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGIONAL PERFUSION; SCORING SYSTEM; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WOUND;

EID: 0029844916     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03341.x     Document Type: Article

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