Not exact matches
Langer's technology focused on administering drugs without needles and even
received FDA approval to administer
Lidocaine cream, a local anesthetic made by Ferndale Pharmaceuticals, Ltd..
Among all patients, those
receiving either amiodarone or
lidocaine required significantly fewer shocks to achieve a stable heart rhythm and were significantly more likely to survive to hospital admission.
After screening, the trial randomized 3,026 study participants to
receive up to 450 milligrams of amiodarone, up to 180 milligrams of
lidocaine or a saline placebo.
However, among patients whose cardiac arrest was witnessed by a bystander, those who
received either amiodarone or
lidocaine during resuscitation had a 5 percent greater chance of survival to hospital discharge compared with those who
received a placebo, which was a statistically significant difference.
Both fat harvesting and cardiac cell implantation require numbing the areas with a local anesthesia like the
Lidocaine you would
receive during a dentist visit.