Chronified Pain Following Operative Procedures.

CONCLUSION: Local and regional anesthetic techniques and intravenous lidocaine lower the incidence of CPSP after certain types of operative procedures. The intravenous administration of lidocaine to prevent CPSP is off label and requires the patient's informed consent. The evidence for the measures presented here is of low to medium quality. PMID: 31130157 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Deutsches Arzteblatt International - Category: General Medicine Tags: Dtsch Arztebl Int Source Type: research