The prevention of pain on injection. A study of the effect of intravenous lignocaine before methohexitone.

The effect of pre-injection of lignocaine 10 mg or physiological saline was assessed in a double blind trial on 100 unpremedicated day cases having a methohexitone induction. The incidence of pain was reduced from 64% to 22% using lignocaine.

RCT Entities:   Population Interventions Outcomes