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01.08.2007 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Practice Pearl: A Novel Anesthetic Solution for Decreasing the Blood Loss at the Recipient Site of Hair Transplantation (Namazi Solution)
verfasst von:
M. R. Namazi
Erschienen in:
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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Ausgabe 4/2007
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Excerpt
The tumescent anesthetic technique offers both anesthesia and vasoconstriction. A solution of 0.1% lidocaine, 1:1000,000 epinephrine, and 10 mEq/l of sodium bicarbonate is injected into the subcutaneous tissue until it becomes quite firm. A dual level of tumescent anesthetic infiltration expedites hair grafting or strip harvesting for hair transplantation, facilitates the placement of the correct incisional angle of instruments inserted into the donor site, reduces bleeding, and increases the exit angle of the hairs, thereby promoting increased survivorship of hair shafts and bulbs [
2,
3]. However, despite the use of this technique, bleeding from the recipient sites frequently occurs, which makes transplantation of the harvested follicles difficult. …