Lidocaine Hydrochloride
Lidocaine Hydrochloride 2%
FULL PRESCRIBING INFORMATION: CONTENTS*
- LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE CONTRAINDICATIONS
- PRECAUTIONS
- LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
- COMPOSITION
FULL PRESCRIBING INFORMATION
Uses
LOCAL ANESTHETIC
CAUTION: Federal law restricts this drug use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
For Animal Use Only
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN
INDICATIONS
Lidocaine is a potent local anesthetic for producing epidural, nerve conduction and infiltration anesthesia.
LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE CONTRAINDICATIONS
Lidocaine is contraindicated in animals with a known hypersensitivity to the drug.
PRECAUTIONS
Lidocaine is usually well tolerated. Nevertheless, as with all local anesthetics, untoward effects may occur due to hypersensitivity, faulty technique, overdosage and inadvertent intravascular or subarachnoid injection. In case of respiratory arrest, immediate resuscitation with oxygen is indicated.
LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
Epidural
Cattle
and
Horses
- 5 to 15 mL
Dogs
and
Cats
- 1 mL per 10 pounds of body weight.
Nerve Block
Cattle
and
Horses
- 5 to 20 mL
Infiltration
Dilute to 0.5% concentration (1 mL of 2% solution diluted with 3 mL of sterile water = 4 mL of a 0.5% solution)
COMPOSITION
Each mL of sterile aqueous solution contains:
Lidocaine Hydrochloride........................2.0%
Propylene Glycol..................................5.2%
Sodium Chloride...................................0.5%
Sodium Lactate....................................0.5%
with Methylparaben 0.15%, Sodium Metabisulfite 0.10%,
Propylparaben 0.03%, and Disodium Edetate 0.001% as preservatives.
Store at controlled room temperature between 15o and 30oC (59o-86oF)
TAKE TIME OBSERVE LABEL DIRECTIONS
Lidocaine HydrochlorideLIDOCAINE INJECTION
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