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Local Anesthetics Properties of Local Anesthetics
The first clinical uses of a local anesthetic agent occurred in 1884, when cocaine was employed as a topical agent for eye surgery and to produce a nerve block. These events inaugurated a new era, that of regional anesthesia. New applications were developed, including spinal, epidural, and caudal anesthesia. The search for a better local anesthetic led to chemical synthesis of a number of other...
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QUESTIONS OF THE DAY L ocal anesthesia can be defined as loss of sensation in a discrete region of the body caused by disruption of impulse generation or propagation. Local anesthesia can be produced by various chemical and physical means. However, in routine clinical practice, local anesthesia is produced by a narrow class of compounds, and recovery is normally spontaneous, predictable, and co...
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Systemic neurotoxicity due to excessive cerebral local anesthetic blood levels is one of the most severe and most frequent adverse outcome of local anesthetic use. Toxic levels are most often produced by unintentional intravenous or intraarterial injection(1,2). Toxicity can also result from the rapid absorption of drug following perineural injection. Peak blood levels are usually obtained acco...
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Purpose of review Local anesthetics are used in a wide range of clinical situations to prevent acute pain and to stop or ameliorate pain produced by cancer or pain associated with chronic painful conditions. Knowledge of the pharmacology of local anesthetics is essential for their safe use and selection of specific agents to achieve intended goals. Recent findings Local anesthetics are a group ...
متن کاملLocal Anesthetics Systemic Toxicity.
Lidocaine Hydrochloride is an amide ester, which is widely used local anesthetic agent that is well tolerated but what is less known is the occurrence of systemic toxicity which manifests in the central nervous and cardiovascular systems. We report here 3 cases of Lidocaine associated Seizures.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anesthesiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-3022
DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e3181a91624