JRSM > Volume 98, Number 9 > Pp. 435

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Local anaesthesia for venepuncture

C J Bowley

Department of Anaesthetics, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK

E-mail: john{at}jbowley.my-bulldog.com

I share the opinion of Dr Yentis (April 2005 JRSM¹) on local anaesthesia for venous cannulation. A venerable consultant teacher of mine, when criticized for using local before siting any intravenous device ‘because the local hurts anyway’, used to respond with the following offer: ‘I will put up a drip on myself using my technique’ (flourishing a 2 mL syringe with 0.5 mL lidocaine and a 27G needle), ‘if you will put up a drip on yourself using your technique’ (flourishing a 14G cannula complete with its needle/introducer). He assured me nobody had ever taken him up on his offer.

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1. Yentis S. Taking the sting out of needles. J R Soc Med 2005;98:178 -9[Free Full Text]

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