In 2002 UCI sued Festina soigneur Willy Voet for defamation over claims in his book Breaking the Chain that the UCI and Hein Verbruggen had allegedly been involved in some sort of coverup of use of Lidocaine and Laurent Brochard.
She committed suicide on 10 July 1986 by overdosing on Lidocaine.
Blood tests later showed that Attias was under the influence of marijuana and Lidocaine, neither deemed significant to the incident.
Some specially formulated combination products are available, such as Somulose (Secobarbital/Cinchocaine) and Tributame (Embutramide/Chloroquine/Lidocaine), which cause deep unconsciousness and cardiac arrest independently with a lower volume of injection, thus making the process faster, safer, and more effective.
Tumescent anesthesia is a combination of highly diluted lidocaine and epinephrine.
Some physicians use local anaesthesia (i.e. lidocaine injections), but that can obscure the area being injected.