News tagged with 'Lidocaine'

A 37-year-old mother goes to a tanning medspa to have liposuction and has a seizure and is now brain dead. The clinic was not licensed to do medical procedures using general anesthesia, and the doctor was an occupational physician, not a plastic surgeon.

Over-the-counter topical anesthetics made with lidocaine, tetracaine, benzocaine and prilocane, are skin numbing products used to relieve itch and to prepare for cosmetic procedures. But the FDA reports two deaths of young women and several adverse reactions linked to the ointments and gels.