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Intravenous (IV) regional anesthesia is usually achieved using dilute lidocaine 0.5%; 50 mL of prilocaine has also been used successfully.
The IV regional block is useful for procedures lasting 90–120 minutes. This time limit is due to tourniquet time constraints rather than to diminution of the local anesthetic effect.
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