Indications
- Local dental anesthesia by nerve block or infiltration.
Features & Benefits
- Lignospan when used for infiltration will have an average onset time of less than two minutes and a duration of about 60 minutes. When used for nerve blocks the average onset time is 2 to 4 minutes and will provide about 90 minutes of pulpal anesthesia.
- No-methylparaben formulation to avoid allergic reactions on sensitive patients.
- 100 percent latex free components to help reduce allergic responses.
- Terminal sterilization of product/cartridges for safe use.
- Mylar label covered glass cartridges to minimize risk of wound in the event of a cartridge breakage.
- Cartridges packed 10 to a blister tray to avoid glass to glass contact, hence reducing breakage.
Presentation
- Item #99165: Box containing 5 blisters of 10 x 1.8 ml glass cartridges
Risk Information
Reactions to Lignspan are characteristic of those
associated with other amide-type local anesthetics. A major cause of
adverse reactions to this group of drugs is excessive plasma levels,
which may be due to overdosage, inadvertent intravascular injection or
slow metabolic degradation. Lignospan is contraindicated in patients
with a known hypersensitivity to it or to any local anesthetic agent of
the amide type or to other components of lidocaine solutions. Local
anesthetics should be employed only by clinicians who are well versed in
diagnosis and management of dose-related toxicity and other acute
emergencies which might arise from the block to be employed, and then
only after insuring the immediate availability of oxygen, other
resuscitative drugs, cardiopulmonary resuscitative equipment, and the
personnel resources needed for proper management of toxic reactions and
related emergencies. Lignospan contains potassium metabisulfite, a
sulfite that may cause allergic-type reactions including anaphylactic
symptoms and life-threatening or less severe asthmatic episodes in
certain susceptible people. Please see package insert for prescribing
information.
Due to Health Canada policy this item cannot be returned.
Due to Health Canada policy this item cannot be returned.
