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Please help! what is the stuff that they put in your arm to numb the vein before the intravenous called?
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?ethyl chlorid spray: To decease the pain of needle sometimes this chemical is sprayed. Sometimes Lidocaine injection is given to numb before lager needles are inserted for some prcedure.
Answered 6/26/2014
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