LIDOCAINE

Vedco, Inc.

LIDOCAINE INJECTABLE 2% LOCAL ANESTHETIC

FULL PRESCRIBING INFORMATION: CONTENTS*

• LIDOCAINE CONTRAINDICATIONS
• PRECAUTIONS
• LIDOCAINE DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
• COMPOSITION

FULL PRESCRIBING INFORMATION

Uses

CAUTION: Federal law restricts this drug to 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 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 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 15^o and 30^oC (59^o-86^oF)

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