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Carbocaine® (mepivacaine)
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What is Carbocaine® ?
  • This medicine contains the local anaesthetic, mepivacaine.
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What is Carbocaine® used for?
  • Carbocaine is used for minor surgical procedures to block feeling in the part of the body affected (local anaesthesia), so that the patient does not experience pain.
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How does Carbocaine® work?
  • By producing local anaesthesia in that part of the body requiring the surgical procedure.
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How is Carbocaine® given?
  • Carbocaine is injected, as a solution, by a health professional trained in anaesthetic techniques.

  • Carbocaine works very quickly.
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