Check Your Irregular Heartbeats by Lidocaine Injection

 

Title: Check Your Irregular Heartbeats by Lidocaine Injection

Lidocaine injectionis used to create local or regional anesthesia by infiltration techniques such as percutaneous injection and by peripheral nerve block techniques such as brachial plexus and intercostal and by central neural techniques such as lumbar and caudal epidural blocks, when the accepted procedures for these techniques as described in standard textbooks are observed.

What I should discuss with my doctor?

The patients are advised to tell their doctor if they have had problems with anesthesia in the past before taking a lidocaine injection. This is not meant for use in pregnant and breastfeeding women. Don’t forget to tell doctor if you have had heart problems, lung problems or liver disease. There are some drugs, such as cimetidine used to treat irregular heartbeat, beta-blockers, mental health medications and migraine medications. They may interact with lidocaine injections. Your doctor must be informed about any medication, including over the counter medicine that you may be taking so that you can be sure that you can avoid an unwanted interaction.

Side Effects

All the drugs have some benefits as well as some side effects. So is the case with Lidocaine injection. Call your doctor right away if you notice any of these side effects:

- Light-headedness or fainting.

- Numbness in another part of your body that is not being treated.

- Unusual bleeding, bruising, or weakness.

- Allergic reaction: Itching or hives, swelling in your face or hands, swelling or tingling in your mouth or throat, chest tightness, trouble breathing.

- Bluish colored lips or fingernails, pale skin.

- Chest pain or uneven heartbeat.

Overdose: If overdose is supposed, it is essential on your part to contact your local poison control center or emergency room at once. US residents should call the US national poison hotline at 1-800-222-1222. Canadian residents can call their local poison control center directly. Overdoses of lidocaine injection can give you rise to symptoms such as seizures, shortness of breath, and slow heartbeat.

Notes: This drug may interfere with laboratory tests (CK and CPK) when given by injection into a muscle (IM). EKG and other heart monitoring will occur during therapy.

Missed dose: If a dose is missed or IV is interrupted, inform your doctor or pharmacist at the appointed time.

Contraindications

Lidocaine injectionis contraindicated in patients with the following medical conditions:

  • Serious adverse drug reaction to lidocaine or amide local anaesthetics
  • Prior use of Amiodarone hydrochloride
  • Hypotension not due to Arrhythmia
  • Bradycardia
  • Heart block, second or third degree (without pacemaker)
  • Severe sinoatrial block (without pacemaker)
  • Accelerated idioventricular rhythm
  • Pacemaker
  • Concurrent treatment with quinidine, flecainide, disopyramide, procainamide (Class I antiarrhythmic agents)

Storage: Store at controlled room temperature away from light and moisture.