eg with Epipen or Emerade.

Causes vasoconstriction with potential for gangrene.

Try:

• warm water immersion
• local nitroglycerin paste
• subcut infiltration with a mixture of 1.5mg of phentolamine, 1mL of 2% lidocaine (at site and along course of digital arteries)

[advised by National Poisons Information Service]

n=365 adrenaline injections to hand, 213 to digit.  No cases with clinically apparent systemic effects, only a few patients had ischemia. No patient was admitted or had surgery. [Annals of Emergency Medicine. 56(3):270-4, 2010 Sep. PMID: 20346537]