Drug Summary

  Drug name:  lidocaine
  Chemical name:  Lidocaone hydrochloride
  Formula:  C₁₄H₂₂N₂O
  Weight:   234.3373
  CAS no:  137-58-6
  DrugBank link:  DB00281
  Description:  A local anesthetic and cardiac depressant used as an antiarrhythmia agent. Its actions are more intense and its effects more prolonged than those of procaine but its duration of action is shorter than that of bupivacaine or prilocaine. [PubChem]
  Indication:  For production of local or regional anesthesia by infiltration techniques such as percutaneous injection and intravenous regional anesthesia by peripheral nerve block techniques such as brachial plexus and intercostal and by central neural techniques such as lumbar and caudal epidural blocks.