An effective method of inducing analgesia and anesthesia for dermatoplastic surgery in an office.

Butorphanol tartrate (Stadol [Bristol]) and diazepam (Valium [Roche]) given intravenously in combination, in proper doses, and properly monitored are effective and safe to induce analgesia and calmness preliminary to extensive infiltration of local anesthetics that are otherwise painful and distressin. They are particularly good for moderately long and prolonged dermatoplastic procedures, and all the better because their analgesic and calmative effects last well into the postoperative period.