Abstract
EDITOR,—I wish to reply to the letters1 on the paper on sedation during fibreoptic bronchoscopy of which I was an author.2 S P Hanley is correct in stating that nasal anaesthesia with lignocaine is unpleasant: patients often comment that this is the worst part of the procedure. Although some studies have been published in which nasal lignocaine has been given before sedation,3 it was our routine practice to give sedation …