Korean J Anesthesiol.  1976 Dec;9(2):193-196.

Anesthetic Experiences with Intravenous Lidocaine for Upper Limb Operations

• Ryoo CS
• Min BW
• Park DW
• Lee SH

Abstract

During the past two years, we had 80 cases of intravenous lidocaine anesthesia for upper limb operations. Per kilogram of body weight, we usually used 1.0~3.0mg of 0,5~0.8% lidocaine and a pressure of 200~300 mmHg(about 100 mmHg higher than the patients systolic blood pressure) by means of an Inflato-Matic dual cuff tourniquet which was also connected with an Inflato-Matic 2, 000 Tourniquet Regulator and oxygen tank. Analgesia occurred about 5 10 minutes after injection with relative satisfaction and, fortunately, no kind of serious complications ensued after releasing the tourniquet. It is not only a simple technique and of low cost to give the anesthesia to the patient(in-patient or out-patient), but also it is possible to perform anywhere and at any time without serious complications or complexities of any other method of anesthesia.

MeSH Terms

Analgesia
Anesthesia
Body Weight
Humans
Lidocaine*
Methods
Oxygen
Tourniquets
Upper Extremity*
Lidocaine
Oxygen