Local anesthetic switching for intrathecal tachyphylaxis in cancer patients with pain.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Switching from bupivacaine to lidocaine may improve intrathecal morphine analgesia in advanced cancer patients, possibly because of different spinal mechanisms limiting the hyperalgesic processes.
Medical subject headings
- Anesthetics, Local
- Neoplasms
- Intractable Pain
- Tachyphylaxis