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Topical anesthesia for esophagogastroscopy

The American Journal of Digestive Diseases, 1960
A double-blind study revealed that: (1) a commercially available solution of 2% tripelennamine and 0.5% chlorobutanol gave a significant degree of pharyngeal anesthesia as measured by gag reflex; (2) a placebo group without pharyngeal anesthesia was endoscoped without significant difficulty; (3) neither the presence or absence of gag reflex nor the use
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Topical Anesthesia for Bronchoscopy

Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 1964
Topical anesthesia in combination with some kind of sedation is probably the most common anesthetic procedure for bronchoscopy today. Anesthetic agents are rapidly absorbed from the tracheobronchial tree. They are all toxic and can cause manifest toxic reactions usually due to absolute or relative overdosage.
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Topical skin anesthesia

Clinics in Dermatology, 1989
Abstract During the last three decades, a variety of transdermal anesthetic preparations have been developed; however, these have been documented almost invariably to be ineffective due to insufficient concentrations of the uncharged base (the active form) of the anesthetics or to poor skin absorption secondary to the lipophilic characteristics of ...
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Topical Anesthesia and Intubation

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1976
To the Editor.— Cohen and Levinsky (236:562, 1976) warned that "care should be exercised... when food is ingested within 60 minutes following the use of topical anesthetics" in the pharynx. They pointed out that "orally administered topical anesthetic agents may interfere with the pharyngeal stage of swallowing" and lead to aspiration.
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Topical Anesthesia for Myringotomy

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1966
Anyone who has done myringotomy using available local anesthetic agents has found that these materials are totally inadequate in yielding any degree of numbness to the eardrum. Skin covers the external surface of the eardrum, and it is well known that its keratinized surface layer is impermeable to topical anesthetic agents.
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Tetracaine Topical Anesthesia for Myringotomy

The Laryngoscope, 2001
AbstractObjectives/Hypothesis To study the efficacy and safety of topical tetracaine anesthesia for office myringotomy and myringotomy with a tube.Study Design Retrospective review of patients undergoing office myringotomy, with or without tube insertion, performed over a 4‐year period.Methods A topical solution of 8% tetracaine base in 70% isopropyl ...
R A, Hoffman, C L, Li
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Efficacy of Topical Anesthesia in Children

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1996
To compare the efficacy of three formulations of a topical anesthetic solution composed of various concentrations of tetracaine hydrochloride, adrenaline (epinephrine), and cocaine hydrochloride (TAC), and to compare the cost of the topical anesthetic solutions with the cost of lidocaine infiltration.Randomized, double-blind clinical trial.Urban ...
R J, Vinci, S S, Fish
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Topical anesthesia for gynecologic procedures

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1989
Topical benzocaine 20% gel was evaluated for its ability to reduce pain associated with several common gynecologic procedures. In the first phase of the investigation, designed to determine the efficacy of the gel, 40 women received it before one or more of five procedures (cervical biopsy, intrauterine device insertion, endocervical curettage ...
J M, Rabin, M, Spitzer, A T, Dwyer, I H, Kaiser   +3 more
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TOPICAL ANESTHESIA IN POSTERIOR VITRECTOMY

Retina, 2000
To evaluate the efficacy of topical anesthesia as an alternative to peribulbar or retrobulbar anesthesia in posterior vitrectomy procedures.Posterior vitrectomy using topical anesthesia (4% lidocaine drops) was performed prospectively in 134 eyes (134 patients) with various vitreoretinal diseases, including severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy (n =
J, Yepez, J, Cedeño de Yepez, J F, Arevalo   +2 more
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Anesthesia for the elderly: selected topics

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2006
With the graying of the Western population, there is a continuous increase in the proportion of elderly patients undergoing surgical procedures. Geriatric anesthesia is emerging from a 'subspecialty' to the mainstream of today's anesthesia and perioperative care.
Wilton C, Levine, Vipin, Mehta, Giora, Landesberg   +2 more
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