Epidural Anesthesia With Chloroprocaine Versus Lidocaine

Summary

Chinese made chloroprocaine has a rapid onset time, effective methodology, can last for a short time, provides fast motor recovery and causes no significant side effects.

Timeline

Start

2008-01

Primary completion

2008-04

Completion

2008-06

Publications

• Background FOLDES FF, McNALL PG. 2-Chloroprocaine: a new local anesthetic agent. Anesthesiology. 1952 May;13(3):287-96. doi: 10.1097/00000542-195205000-00009. No abstract available.
• Background Steinemann TL, Sheikholeslami RR, Klein EF, Prokopius MJ. Short-acting peribulbar anesthesia with 2-chloroprocaine. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2002 Jan;28(1):195-6. doi: 10.1016/s0886-3350(01)00899-9.
• Background Hadzic A, Arliss J, Kerimoglu B, Karaca PE, Yufa M, Claudio RE, Vloka JD, Rosenquist R, Santos AC, Thys DM. A comparison of infraclavicular nerve block versus general anesthesia for hand and wrist day-case surgeries. Anesthesiology. 2004 Jul;101(1):127-32. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200407000-00020.
• Background Liu SS, Ware PD, Rajendran S. Effects of concentration and volume of 2-chloroprocaine on epidural anesthesia in volunteers. Anesthesiology. 1997 Jun;86(6):1288-93; discussion 7A. doi: 10.1097/00000542-199706000-00009.
• Background Sell A, Tein T, Pitkanen M. Spinal 2-chloroprocaine: effective dose for ambulatory surgery. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2008 May;52(5):695-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2008.01639.x.
• Results Marica LS, O'Day T, Janosky JE, Nystrom EU. Chloroprocaine is less painful than lidocaine for skin infiltration anesthesia. Anesth Analg. 2002 Feb;94(2):351-4, table of contents. doi: 10.1097/00000539-200202000-00022.
• Results Marsch SC, Sluga M, Studer W, Barandun J, Scharplatz D, Ummenhofer W. 0.5% versus 1.0% 2-chloroprocaine for intravenous regional anesthesia: a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial. Anesth Analg. 2004 Jun;98(6):1789-1793. doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000116929.45557.CE.
• Results Jafari S, Kalstein AI, Nasrullah HM, Hedayatnia M, Yarmush JM, SchianodiCola J. A randomized, prospective, double-blind trial comparing 3% chloroprocaine followed by 0.5% bupivacaine to 2% lidocaine followed by 0.5% bupivacaine for interscalene brachial plexus block. Anesth Analg. 2008 Nov;107(5):1746-50. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318185cd5e.
• Results Bjornestad E, Iversen OL, Raeder J. Similar onset time of 2-chloroprocaine and lidocaine + epinephrine for epidural anesthesia for elective Cesarean section. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2006 Mar;50(3):358-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2006.00937.x.
• Results Casati A, Fanelli G, Danelli G, Berti M, Ghisi D, Brivio M, Putzu M, Barbagallo A. Spinal anesthesia with lidocaine or preservative-free 2-chlorprocaine for outpatient knee arthroscopy: a prospective, randomized, double-blind comparison. Anesth Analg. 2007 Apr;104(4):959-64. doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000258766.73612.d8.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.