Lidocaine

Indications

Lidocaine is a potent local anesthetic for producing epidural and nerve conduction anesthesia.

Dosage and Administration

Epidural Cattle and Horses - 5 to 15 mL Dogs and Cats - 1 mL per 10 pounds of body weight. Nerve Block Cattle and Horses - 5 to 20 mL Infiltration Dilute to 0.5% concentration (1 mL of 2% solution diluted with 3 mL of sterile water = 4 mL of a 0.5% solution) COMPOSITION Each mL of sterile aqueous solution contains: Lidocaine Hydrochloride........................2.0% Propylene Glycol..................................5.2% Sodium Chloride...................................0.5% Sodium Lactate....................................0.5% with Methylparaben 0.15%, Sodium Metabisulfite 0.10%, Propylparaben 0.03%, and Disodium Edetate 0.001% as preservatives. Store at controlled room temperature between 15 o and 30 o C (59 o -86 o F) TAKE TIME OBSERVE LABEL DIRECTIONS Lidocaine Inj-13 Label

Contraindications

Lidocaine is contraindicated in animals with a known hypersensitivity to the drug.

Precautions

Lidocaine is usually well tolerated. Nevertheless, as with all local anesthetics, untoward effects may occur due to hypersensitivity, faulty technique, overdosage and inadvertent intravascular or subarachnoid injection. In case of respiratory arrest, immediate resuscitation with oxygen is indicated.

Other labels for this ingredient

These labels are also stored for the same active ingredient. They are not identical to the one reprinted above, and each is listed by product and set id rather than merged with it.

• Lidocaine Hydrochloride 2%, VetTek. Set id cc93b0a3-f852-43a6-a1fd-bcba1b0b34af.
• Lidocaine 2%, Covetrus North America. Set id 5aeff72e-f306-4143-ab42-f8a0883e4138.
• LIDOCAINE INJECTION Local Anesthetic, Aspen Veterinary Resources, Ltd.. Set id b03abdc6-9c01-4ae9-b5f2-22ba6d07be37.
• LIDOCAINE INJECTABLE 2% LOCAL ANESTHETIC, Vedco, Inc.. Set id 2393804d-421a-423a-9d49-2a18cd102fe3.
• LIDOCAINE INJECTABLE LOCAL ANESTHETIC, Sparhawk Laboratories, Inc.. Set id cda35338-7f86-4d38-a016-a0c35a05a234.
• Lidocaine 2% Injection Local Anesthetic, MWI/VetOne. Set id 84d4dc99-daaa-41e5-9da9-25c7922e285f.

FDA adverse event reports

The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine publishes the adverse event reports it receives through openFDA. The counts below are the reports naming lidocaine as an active ingredient for each species this label names, as returned on 2026-09-16, coded by the VeDDRA reaction term the reporter chose. Reactions are counted per report, so one report can appear under several terms.

These are counts, not rates. Reporting is voluntary, the number of animals treated is not known, and a widely used product accumulates reports for that reason alone. A report records that an event followed a dose; it does not establish that the product caused it. The counts say nothing about how one product compares with another.