A Brief History of Lidocaine
Lidocaine, Xylocaine, or lignocaine is a common local anesthetic and antiarrhythmic drug. Lidocaine is used topically to alleviate itching, burning and pain from skin redness or swelling. It is also used in a way to be injected as a dental anesthetic or as a local anesthetic for minor surgeries. Lidocaine, the first amino amide-category local anesthetic, it was first synthesized under the name of Xylocaine by Swedish chemist Nils Löfgren in 1943. His colleague Bengt Lundqvist performed the number one injection of anesthesia analysis on himself. The drug was first advertised in 1949. The effectiveness profile of lidocaine as a local anesthetic is distinguished by a accelerated onset of action and intermediate duration. This means that lidocaine is suitable for infiltration, block and surface anesthesia. Lidocaine is not a brightly colored substance, but rather a white powdery substance.