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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (4131)5/13/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: biodoc  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7041
 
No, they don't miss their subject. Lidocaine is used for local anesthetics for such things as suturing. It comes plain and mixed with epinephrine (to be used for very heavy bleeding locations, like the scalp). If you screw up and put the wrong kind around the main blood vessel in a finger when you are trying to anesthetize it, there can be big trouble.



To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (4131)5/13/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: George Acton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7041
 
The way to do a definitive survey in a reasonable time would be to
go to a medical library and pull all the old editions of the
pharmacological bible, Goodman and Gilman. Merck Manuals and
PDRs would be intersting as well. I just have a G&G a couple
of editions back, and the impression I have is that it's an
ancient drug, one of the classics for adrenergic pharmacology,
but that no one got excited about an application to impotence.

--George Acton



To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (4131)5/14/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: hasbeen101  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7041
 
Fascinating. I assume that there aren't too many who miss their subject and accidentally inject epinephrine into their fingers. One could probably count the incidents (ahem) on one hand.

Perhaps more common than one might think at first. A psychiatrist friend of mine inadvertently gave ECT to his own thumb instead of the patient's brain.


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