Transdermal analgesia with local anesthetics in children: Review, update and future directions

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 625-634

  Houck, Constance S ^a   Sethna, Navil F ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Children; Topical; Transdermal

Indexed keywords

ALGRX 3268; EMLA; LIDOCAINE; LMX 4; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PRILOCAINE; S CAINE; TETRACAINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANALGESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CREAM; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; EDEMA; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHEMA; GEL; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER SURGERY; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; PAIN; PETECHIA; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; SKIN SURGERY; ULTRASOUND; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CHILD; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMANS; PAIN; SKIN ABSORPTION;

EID: 26444433250     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.5.5.625     Document Type: Review

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