Question · asked by 1 review
Plain lidocaine vs buffered lidocaine: Injection site pain
- Population
- Patients requiring local anaesthesia
- Intervention
- Plain lidocaine
- Comparison
- buffered lidocaine
- Outcome
- Injection site pain
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Plain lidocaine vs buffered lidocaine Pain at injection site VAS. Scale from 0 to 10. · Patients requiring local anaesthesia Adjusting the pH of lidocaine for reducing pain on injection (2010) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 7 studies · 685 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjusting the pH of lidocaine for reducing pain on injection 2010 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.