Abstract
Three hundred and sixty-five patients were given tetracaine intravenously for various types of pain and neuromuscular tension. In the treatment of pain, myositis, muscle spasm, and visceral spasm most patients were relieved. Best results were obtained in syndromes in which pain was associated with muscle spasm, such as in pain in the lower part of the back and scalenus anticus syndromes. The effects of tetracaine intravenously are those of analgesia, vasodilatation, and relaxation of spastic muscle. Sixty-five of the patients were treated for neuromuscular tension, and there was good relaxation and increased comfort. Alcoholics were relieved of some of the tension symptoms and may have been helped to resist the desire to drink. Of 14 patients with premenstrual tension, 13 had complete relief. Eight patients with mixed anxiety and tension states also responded well.
Toxic and allergic reactions were negligible, and other side effects were infrequent and of no consequence.
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