Article: Adverse effects of local anesthetic infiltration on wound healing

Wound infiltration with local anesthetic (LA) was an important and preferred method of operative analgesia in the early 20th century. In fact, the term "balanced anesthesia" was originally used by Lundy in reference to local infiltration analgesia in combination with light general anesthesia.1 The popularity of local infiltration waned as methods of general anesthesia and discrete nerve block improved. However, within the last decade, there has been a resurgence of interest in the use of LA at the surgical site, spurred by its potential for inexpensive, technically straightforward perioperative analgesia, together with novel delivery devices and newer formulations of LAs. In addition to ...

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