DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i05.004

Pages: 1727-1734

Topical anesthesia for flexible bronchoscopy can be achieved in several ways like administration of an anesthetic agents by injecting through cricothyroid membrane,by giving drug lignocaine through Nebulization, 3}administering the drug through oral spray. Nebulization of lidocaine can achieve very satisfying anesthesia comparable to oral spraying with significant low plasma levels of the drug. Nebulization of lidocaine with midazolam gives good results than using only lidocaine without sedation. Nebulization of lidocaine gives effective analgesia & the dose of conscious sedation is significantly reduced. So we studied the effect of nebulized lignocaine with midazolam as sedation in 60 patients needing bronchoscopy and compared them to 50 patients who underwent fibrooptic bronchoscopy with oral spray of lignocaine and midazolam as sedation.