Medical practice can be very hard to change. I have previously covered a paper from 2003 that showed that the “pink lady” or “GI cocktail” provides no benefit to patients, but lidocaine is still widely used for epigastric pain in emergency medicine. Of course, that prior paper was somewhat messy, […]
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The “pink lady” or “GI cocktail”, a combination of an antacid and viscous lidocaine, is both much loved and much hated in emergency medicine. Some practitioners use it as a matter of routine. Others warn against it, for fear that it can lead to misdiagnosis in the setting of MI. […]