Category

• Anesthetic, local

Description Drug

Parenteral-local anesthetics - an-ess-THET-iks are given by injection to cause loss of feeling before and during surgery, dental procedures - including dental surgery, or labor and delivery. These medication do not cause loss of consciousness.

These medication are given only by or under the immediate supervision of a family doctor or dentist, or by a specially trained nurse, in the family doctor's office or in a hospital.

These medication are available in the following dosage forms:

Parenteral
• Articaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada
• Bupivacaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada
• Chloroprocaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada
• Etidocaine
  • Injection - USA
• Levobupivacaine
  • Injection - USA
• Lidocaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada
• Mepivacaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada
• Prilocaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada
• Procaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada
• Tetracaine
  • Injection - USA and Canada

Brand Names

Some commonly using brand names are:

In the USA

• Carbocaine ⁷
• Carbocaine with Neo-Cobefrin ⁷
• Chirocaine ⁵
• Citanest Forte ⁸
• Citanest Plain ⁸
• Dalcaine ⁶
• Dilocaine ⁶
• Duranest ⁴
• Duranest-MPF ⁴
• Isocaine ⁷
• L-Caine ⁶
• Lidoject-1 ⁶
• Lidoject-2 ⁶
• Marcaine
• Marcaine Spinal
• Nesacaine
• Nesacaine-MPF
• Novocain ⁹
• Octocaine ⁶
• Polocaine ⁷
• Polocaine-MPF ⁷
• Pontocaine ¹⁰
• Sensorcaine
• Sensorcaine-MPF
• Sensorcaine-MPF Spinal
• Septocaine
• Xylocaine ⁶
• Xylocaine-MPF ⁶
• Xylocaine-MPF with Glucose ⁶

In Canada

• Astracaine 4%
• Astracaine 4% Forte
• Carbocaine ⁷
• Citanest Forte ⁸
• Citanest Plain ⁸
• Isocaine 2% ⁷
• Isocaine 3% ⁷
• Marcaine
• Nesacaine-CE
• Novocain ⁹
• Octocaine-50 ⁶
• Octocaine-100 ⁶
• Polocaine ⁷
• Pontocaine ¹⁰
• Sensorcaine
• Sensorcaine Forte
• Ultracaine D-S
• Ultracaine D-S Forte
• Xylocaine ⁶
• Xylocaine Test Dose ⁶
• Xylocaine 5% Spinal ⁶

Another commonly using name for lidocaine is lignocaine .

For quick reference, the following anesthetics are numbered to match the corresponding brand names.