Hypnosis is a valuable tool to help ease anxiety and pain. A new study compared addition of lidocaine to propofol with expert hypnosis during IV cannulation and induction with propofol, and found that hypnosis alone, using the “magic glove” technique was effective!

Link to the study: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/10.1111/pan.14909

Link to Dr. Leora Kuttner’s magic glove method: https://pediatric-pain.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The_Magic_Glove12.pdf