The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has published a practice advisory on local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) called “Guidelines for the Management of Severe Local ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

There was a decrease noted in reports of death in the operating room, from 47% before 2010 to 15% after 2010 in a case analysis. HealthDay News — Local anesthetic poisoning reports decreased following ...

Lipid emulsion therapy has emerged over the past two decades as a life-saving intervention for local anaesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST). Intravenous administration of a triglyceride-rich emulsion ...

Deaths from lidocaine poisonings more than doubled since 2010, calls to poison control centers suggested. Calls about local anesthetic poisonings decreased by 23%, mainly due to fewer non-lidocaine ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anaesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade, finds an analysis of National Poison Data System (NPDS) reports, ...

Michael Fettiplace, M.D., from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and colleagues analyzed reports of local anesthetic poisoning and mortality from the American Poison Centers National Poison Data ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

A new study published in the Feb. 2012 issue of Anesthesiology found that the type of lipid emulsion used to reverse toxicity of local anesthetics may change the effectiveness of the reversal, ...

After 2010, there was an increase in reports of lidocaine poisoning and reports of lidocaine mortality. HealthDay News — Poisonings and deaths linked to use of local anesthetics decreased over the ...