Use of topical application of lidocaine-prilocaine cream to reduce injection-site plain of depot antipsychotics

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 940-941

  Bloch, Yuval ^a   Levkovitz, Yechiel ^a   Atshuler, Alexander ^a   Dvoretzki, Vera ^a   Fenning, Shmuel ^a   Ratzoni, Gideon ^a  

^a Child and Adol Outpatient Clinic   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMLA; FLUPHENAZINE; HALOPERIDOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PLACEBO; ZUCLOPENTHIXOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; ISRAEL; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PRILOCAINE; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID;

EID: 3543074144     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.55.8.940     Document Type: Article

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