FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 329:890-891 September 16, 1993 Number 12 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited

To the Editor: The pharmacologic approaches to the treatment of severe hiccups include the use of chlorpromazine, carbamazepine, nifedipine, baclofen, metoclopramide, haloperidol, ketamine, and phenytoin, each of which has potentially serious side effects^1,2. Pretreatment with intravenous lidocaine (1 mg per kilogram of body weight) diminishes hiccups that are associated with the induction of anesthesia with methohexital³.

We report the use of intravenous lidocaine to treat incapacitating hiccups. A 45-year-old man was hospitalized with fever and pulmonary infiltrate. Two days after bronchoscopy, intense, nearly continuous hiccups developed, associated with nausea, chest pain, dizziness, and fatigue. Oral medications were contraindicated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.