Epidural Cattle and Horses - 5 to 15 mL Dogs and Cats - 1 mL per 10 pounds of body weight. Nerve Block Cattle and Horses - 5 to 20 mL Infiltration Dilute to 0.5% concentration (1 mL of 2% solution diluted with 3 mL of sterile water = 4 mL of a 0.5% solution)
Storage and handling
Store at controlled room temperature between 15 o and 30 o C (59 o - 86 o F) TAKE TIME OBSERVE LABEL DIRECTIONS
CAUTION: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
FOR ANIMAL USE ONLY
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN
INDICATIONS
Lidocaine is a potent local anesthetic for producing epidural, nerve conduction and infiltration anesthesia.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
CONTRAINDICATIONS SECTION
Lidocaine is contraindicated in animals with a known hypersensitivity to the drug.
PRECAUTIONS
PRECAUTIONS SECTION
Lidocaine is usually well tolerated. Nevertheless, as with all local anesthetics, untoward effects may occur due to hypersensitivity, faulty technique, overdosage and inadvertent intravascular or subarachnoid injection. In case of respiratory arrest, immediate resuscitation with oxygen is indicated.
DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
DOSAGE & ADMINISTRATION SECTION
Epidural Cattle and Horses- 5 to 15 mL Dogs and Cats- 1 mL per 10 pounds of body weight. Nerve Block Cattle and Horses- 5 to 20 mL Infiltration Dilute to 0.5% concentration (1 mL of 2% solution diluted with 3 mL of sterile water = 4 mL of a 0.5% solution)
COMPOSITION
COMPONENTS
Each mL of sterile aqueous solution contains: Lidocaine Hydrochloride........................2.0% Propylene Glycol..................................5.2% Sodium Chloride...................................0.5% Sodium Lactate....................................0.5% with Methylparaben 0.15%, Sodium Metabisulfite 0.10%, Propylparaben 0.03%, and Disodium Edetate 0.001% as preservatives.
STORAGE AND HANDLING SECTION
Store at controlled room temperature between 15o and 30oC (59o - 86oF)
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