This medicine is also used to numb your shoulder after surgery for up to 72 hours. It is a local anesthetic. Bupivacaine injection causes a loss of feeling and prevents pain by blocking signals at the nerve endings. It does not cause loss of consciousness. In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do.
This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:. Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals.
For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully. Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of bupivacaine injection during surgery and procedures in the pediatric population. Use is not recommended in children younger than 12 years of age. Safety and efficacy have not been established. Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of bupivacaine injection after shoulder surgery in the pediatric population.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of bupivacaine injection in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have low blood pressure or kidney problems, which may require caution and an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving bupivacaine injection. There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding.
Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding. Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are receiving this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below.
The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive. Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases.
If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines. Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco. The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:.
A nurse or other trained health professional will give you this medicine in a hospital. This medicine should cause numbness only to the area where it is injected. You may experience temporary loss of sensation or movement in the injected area. This type of numbing procedure is called local anesthesia. It is not meant to cause you to fall asleep or become unconscious. You may experience temporary loss of sensation and movement, usually in the lower half of your body, if you receive this medicine into your lower back epidural.
It may be easier to hurt yourself while your treated body area is still numb. Be careful to avoid injury until you have regained all the feeling and are no longer numb. To avoid injury after dental work, do not chew solid foods until normal feeling has returned to the area. Do not test the feeling in your mouth by biting or poking the treated area up to 7 hours. If you are receiving this medicine as an epidural to ease labor pains, it may take longer than normal for you to push your baby out.
It is also possible that the baby may have unwanted effects after birth including sleepiness, slow responses. Drug: Lidocaine Local anesthetics Experimental: Bupivacaine Subjects randomized to this treatment arm will receive bupivacaine during their elective hand surgery.
Secondary Outcome Measures : Post operative pain [ Time Frame: up to 2 weeks post surgery ] Pain subject reported pain scores experienced at injection, during surgical procedure and post operative pain experienced by subject up to 2 weeks post surgery. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below.
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Read our disclaimer for details. Last Update Posted : December 14, Study Description. Detailed Description:. MedlinePlus related topics: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Drug Information available for: Lidocaine hydrochloride Lidocaine Bupivacaine hydrochloride Bupivacaine. FDA Resources. Arms and Interventions. Subjects randomized to this treatment arm will receive bupivacaine during their elective hand surgery. Outcome Measures.
Primary Outcome Measures : amount of oral analgesic used post procedure [ Time Frame: up to 2 weeks post surgery ] Total amount of oral analgesic a subject uses from the day of surgery to 2 weeks post surgery. Eligibility Criteria. Information from the National Library of Medicine Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Inclusion Criteria: 18 - 90 year old Able to provide informed consent Consent to participate Carpal tunnel release surgery or Trigger finger release surgery Single procedure Exclusion Criteria: Unable to consent Do not consent to participate Known Lidocaine or Bupivacaine allergy Known Epinephrine allergy or contra indication Known Codeine allergy Pregnant More than one procedure is being performed at the same setting.
Contacts and Locations. Information from the National Library of Medicine To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor. Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials. More Information. Local anesthetics Elective hand surgeries. National Library of Medicine U. National Institutes of Health U. Department of Health and Human Services.
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