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What is Marcaine?

Marcaine® is a brand name for bupivacaine, a local anesthetic agent used for nerve block. Specific uses include peripheral nerve block; infiltration; sympathetic block; spinal, caudal or epidural block; retrobulbar block.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Pain 2 1 Efficacy_major
Tenderness 1 1 Efficacy_major
Muscle spasms in neck and shoulders 1 0
Spasms in back 1 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 1

Reported Dosages

  0.5% as needed 0.5 g weekly 15 mmol/L every other week
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Marcaine (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 100%

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Currently Taking Marcaine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
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Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Marcaine

Always
 1 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Marcaine

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 1 100%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Marcaine

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 1 100%
< $25
 0 0%

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Report created on May 26, 2012.