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Potential Use of Ultrasound for Subcutaneous Delivery of Anesthetics

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A new ultrasound-intensified method of local anesthesia is described and compared to existing techniques of local anesthesia. The results of the analysis demonstrate that the lidocaine-mediated local anesthesia intensified by ultrasound increases the pain threshold by 50–75%.

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  1. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia

    V. M. Gorshkova

  2. Postgraduate Education Department, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia

    S. V. Savchenko

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Correspondence to V. M. Gorshkova.

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Translated from Meditsinskaya Tekhnika, Vol. 47, No. 1, Jan.-Feb., 2013, pp. 30-32.

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Gorshkova, V.M., Savchenko, S.V. Potential Use of Ultrasound for Subcutaneous Delivery of Anesthetics. Biomed Eng 47, 36–38 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10527-013-9329-6

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