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Lidocaine-Epinephrine-Tetracaine Gel Is More Efficient than Eutectic Mixture of Local Anesthetics and Mepivacaine Injection for Pain Control during Skin Repair in Children: A Prospective, Propensity Score Matched Two-Center Study

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Prospective two-center study of 59 children demonstrates that lidocaine-epinephrine-tetracaine (LET) gel provides significantly less painful pretreatment than EMLA plus mepivacaine infiltration for laceration repair, with equivalent efficacy and no difference in procedural pain or infection rates.

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Topical Anesthesia Pediatric Emergency Medicine Laceration Repair Pain Management Let Gel Wound Care

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#PediatricEmergency #PainManagement #TopicalAnesthesia #WoundCare

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How to cite: GlobalCastMD. Lidocaine-Epinephrine-Tetracaine Gel Is More Efficient than Eutectic Mixture of Local Anesthetics and Mepivacaine Injection for Pain Control during Skin Repair in Children: A Prospective, Propensity Score Matched Two-Center Study. GlobalCastMD Medical Library. 2019-11-18. https://library.globalcastmd.com/article/1909

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