Skeletal surgery system

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The finding that tamoxifen given as adjuvant to surgery improved survival (Fisher et al., 1996) and decreased bone loss (Evans and Turner, 1995 Jordan, 1993) has been a major stimulus to search for other and possibly more potent and specific compounds that would act as antiestrogens in the breast and uterus while having estrogen-like effects in the skeletal and cardiovascular systems. 

Local anesthetics are drugs that produce reversible conduction blockage of nerve impulses. Autonomic system blockade followed by sensory anesthesia and skeletal muscle paralysis occur when local anesthetic concentration is increased. The effects of local anesthetics are completely reversible, with no evidence of structural damage to the nerve fibers. Another prominent clinical feature of local anesthesia is that loss of sensation occurs without loss of consciousness. This property makes local anesthetics highly useful for many office procedures and for eye surgery. This chapter considers the pharmacologic properties of anesthetics cmrently used for ophthalmic procedures. 

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