Anaesthesia/anaesthetic agents local

Columb M O 2001 Local anaesthetic agents. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine 2 288-291... 

In fact, N2O is usually employed alone as an anaesthetic agent during some special localized dental procedures only. However, most frequently N2O is utilized with other volatile anaesthetics to cause a sufficient desirable depth of anaesthesia essentially required for various surgical procedures . 

Uses cinchocaine is used as an anaesthetic agent for spinal anaesthesia a component in rectal medications used in inflammation of the anus and for the symptomatic treatment of hemorrhoids and fissures in the anus local anesthetic agent Cross lidocaine. PA A... 

Foetal depression during spinal and epidural obstetric anaesthesia occurs secondary to maternal hypotension or as a result of placental transfer of the local anaesthetic agent (8, 10 -, 13 ). In this respect, bupivacaine was found to have a low foeto-maternal drug concentration ratio (16 -). When caudal anaesthesia is used, direct injection of the local anaesthetic drug into the foetus is possible (13, Other causes... 

It is a local anaesthetic of the amide type which is employed for surface, infiltration and nerve block anaesthesia. Its duration of action is in between the shorter-acting lidocaine and longer-acting mepivacaine. It possesses less vaso-dilator activity than lidocaine and hence may be used without adrenaline. Therefore, solutions of prilocaine hydrochloride are specifically beneficial for such patients who cannot tolerate vasopressor agents patients having cardiovascular disorders, diabetes, hypertension and thyrotoxicosis. 

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