Abstract

A REVIEW ON TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM: LIDOCAINE

Pratiksha S. Salunkhe, Pratiksha B. Pawar and Ravi Hole*

ABSTRACT

Transdermal medication administration is one of the most convenient and minimally painful methods are available. Drugs applied to the skin through transdermal medication delivery were first utilized in 1981 to provide systematic effect. The transdermal patch or transdermal drug delivery system is one of the Novel Drug Delivery System (NDDS). A transdermal patch offers a controlled release of the medication into the patient, typically through either a porous membrane covering a reservoir of medication or through body heat melting thin layers of medication embedded in the adhesive. This is an advantage of transdermal drug delivery over other types of delivery systems such as oral, topical, intravascular, intramuscular etc. The transdermal patches Advantages, Disadvantages, Mechanism of action, varieties or types of transdermal patches, skin physiology, application precautions, factors

Keywords: with basic components, methods of evaluation, application are all discussed in detail in a review. This method of painless drug delivery is growing steadily and will soon rank among the most significant methods of drug delivery.