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SUBMITTER: Ghimire A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7268281 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghimire Anup A Subedi Asish A Bhattarai Balkrishna B Sah Birendra Prasad BP
BMC anesthesiology 20200603 1
<h4>Background</h4>As a component of multimodal analgesia, the administration of systemic lidocaine is a well-known technique. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of lidocaine infusion on postoperative pain-related outcomes in patients undergoing totally extraperitoneal (TEP) laparoscopies inguinal hernioplasty.<h4>Methods</h4>In this randomized controlled double-blind study, we recruited 64 patients to receive either lidocaine 2% (intravenous bolus 1.5 mg. kg <sup>- 1</sup> followed by an infusio ...[more]