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  • Title: [Retrosternal novocaine blockade in the treatment of severe forms of bronchial asthma and status asthmaticus].
    Author: Smirnov DA, Plashchevskiĭ AT.
    Journal: Anesteziol Reanimatol; 1991; (2):49-50. PubMed ID: 1862991.
    Abstract:
    Retrosternal procaine blockade with a 0.25% procaine solution, using a bent needle, 15-18 cm long, at the moment of bronchial asthma attack made it possible to arrest the attack in 25 patients, in 6 cases a considerable improvement of the patients' conditions was observed and in 4 patients there was no therapeutic effect. Retrosternal administration of 80-120 ml of a 0.25% procaine solution promotes to the improvement of respiration parameters, hemodynamics, blood gas composition. The procedure is simple and low traumatic.
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