Mepivacaine Injection - 100ml

Non-irritant local anaesthetic injection for Horses

COMPOSITION
Mepivacaine hydrochloride 20 mg/mL (2% solution)

ACTIONS
MEPIVACAINE is a sterile, iso-osmotic solution indicated for all techniques of local anaesthesia. Mepivacaine is from the amide group.
Anaesthesia develops rapidly, and is slightly more prolonged than with Lignocaine or Prilocaine.
Local anesthesia in equines has been associated with undue swelling at injection sites, with subsequent poor wound healing, breakdown of suture lines, and tissue sloughing of infiltrated sites.
MEPIVACAINE has low tissue reactivity and has proved an excellent anaesthetic agent for horses in field infusion, nerve blocks, epidural and spinal blocks, and intra-thecal anaesthesia.
Although MEPIVACAINE is suited to all animals, it has proven outstanding in horses.
The lack of tissue reaction following use has resulted in a significant increase in the number of wounds, particularly those of the lower limb, which are able to be sutured with confidence
of primary intention wound healing. Suture necrosis which may follow the swelling and subsequent tension in suture lines, even in such relatively simple procedures as Caslicks in mares, can be embarrassing and occasionally dangerous.
MEPIVACAINE dramatically reduces the risk of suture necrosis following swelling.
Nerve blocks in the equine lower limb, essential to veterinary diagnostics, can be performed without subsequent unwanted tissue swelling. Spinal anaesthesia is reliable and safe with MEPIVACAINE.
MEPIVACAINE is, and has been, the local anaesthetic of choice with equine veterinarians for many years.

INDICATIONS
To induce local anaesthesia

DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
Any unused portion of product should be discarded 6 months after first broaching the vial. The product should be stored upright after broaching the vial. Administer by intramuscular or subcutaneous injection.
Nerve Block: 5 - 10 mL by perineural injection.
Low Epidural Anaesthesia: 2.5 mL per 100 kg bodyweight or to effect.

PRESENTATION
100 mL sterile multi-dose glass vial

STORAGE
Store below 25°C (Air Conditioning). Protect from light.

WARNINGS
Meat Withholding Period (Horses): 28 Days
If used in performance animals, the regulations of the relevant authorities regarding medication should be observed.