Tumescent technique liposuction
The word tumescent means swollen and firm. The tumescent technique liposuction for local anesthesia involves the injection of large volumes of very dilute lidocaine a kind of local anesthetic and epinephrine into subcutaneous fat. With the tumescent technique liposuction the volume of lidocaine that is injected into fat is so large that the targeted areas literally become tumescent. The tumescent technique produces profound and long-lasting local anesthesia of the skin and subcutaneous fat.
The main advantage of tumescent technique liposuction is that Local anesthesia used in the tumescent technique for liposuction is so effective that patients no longer need intravenous sedatives, narcotic analgesics, or general anesthesia.
