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oxybuprocaine

Benoxinate, a local anaesthetic drug used as eyedrops to effect rapid anaesthetization of the cornea for pressure measurement in glaucoma (tonometry), foreign body removal and other purposes. A brand name is Minims benoxinate.
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Procaine, mepivacaine, lidocaine, ropivacaine, oxybuprocaine, tetracaine, bupivacaine, T-caine and dibucaine are local anesthetics that were reported [16] to be simultaneously detected by a high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method.
The eyes were topically anesthetized with 0.1% tetracaine hydrochloride with 0.4% oxybuprocaine hydrochloride (double anesthetic Colicursi; Alcon Cusi, SA, Barcelona, Spain), with 3 drops spaced 30 seconds apart applied on each eye.
For conjunctival impression cytology (IC), after topical anaesthesia with oxybuprocaine, strips of supor-type microfiltration membrane (Pall, AM; 4 mmx5 mm) were applied on the temporal bulbar conjunctiva to getconjunctival epithelial cells.
A Burian-Allen contact lens electrode was used, which was placed on the anesthetized (0.4% oxybuprocaine hydrochloride) cornea.
The CXL-WA [1] treatment was performed under topical anesthesia with oxybuprocaine hydrochloride 0.2% and lidocaine 4%, administered 5 minutes before surgery.
All intrastromal injections were performed under topical anesthesia (0.4% oxybuprocaine hydrochloride eye drops, Santen, Japan) in aseptic conditions using an operation microscope.
(7) randomly applied 20-ms or 100-ms PASCAL PRP under topical oxybuprocaine to 40 treatment-naive eyes of 24 patients.
The injections of 0.3 mg (0.03 ml) of ranibizumab were injected at 1.5 mm posterior to the corneal limbus using a 30-G needle under topical anesthesia with oxybuprocaine eye drop.
Methods: One hundred and ninety patients scheduled for transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy were randomized equally into Group-A who received caudal block (20 ml 1.2% lidocaine) and Group-B who received intrarectal local anesthesia (0.3% oxybuprocaine cream) plus periprostatic nerve block (10 ml 1% lidocaine plus 0.5% ropivacaine) before biopsy.
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