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Local anesthetics for the Nephrologist [PDF]
Abstract Several specialists in medicine use local anesthetics. In patients with kidney disease, these agents are used during catheter insertions for hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, arteriovenous fistula and graft procedures, kidney transplantation, parathyroidectomy, kidney biopsies, and dental and skin procedures.
Nupur N Uppal+5 more
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Review of adjuvants to local anesthetics in peripheral nerve blocks: Current and future trends
In recent anesthetic practice, peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) are used extensively for surgical anesthesia and nonsurgical analgesia. PNBs offer many benefits over other anesthetic techniques in a certain population of patients, and in some specific ...
G. Krishna Prasad+2 more
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Paresthesia in dentistry: The ignored neurotoxicity of local anesthetics
Local anesthetics are frequently used by dentists to relieve localized discomfort of the patient and improve treatment conditions. The risk of paresthesia after local anesthesia is frequently encountered in dental clinics.
Yong-zhen Tan+4 more
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Neurotoxicity of local anesthetics in dentistry
During dental treatment, a dentist usually applies the local anesthesia. Therefore, all dentists should have expertise in local anesthesia and anesthetics. Local anesthetics have a neurotoxic effect at clinically relevant concentrations.
Eun-Jung Kim, H. Kim, Ji-Hye Ahn
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Benzonatate as a local anesthetic
Introduction Benzonatate is an FDA-approved antitussive agent that resembles tetracaine, procaine, and cocaine in its chemical structure. Based on structural similarities to known local anesthetics and recent findings of benzonatate exerting local anesthetic-like effects on voltage-gated sodium channels in vitro, we hypothesized that benzonatate will ...
Anna McGuire+4 more
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An on-demand anesthetic that would only take effect when needed and where the intensity of anesthesia could be easily adjustable according to patients’ needs would be highly desirable.
Wei Zhang+7 more
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New patents on topical anesthetics. [PDF]
Anesthesia is defined as a total or partial loss of sensation and it may be general, local or topical, depending on the method of drug administration and area of the body affected.
CALVIERI, Stefano+6 more
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Chiral Aspects of Local Anesthetics
Thanks to the progress made in chemical technology (particularly in the methodologies of stereoselective syntheses and analyses) along with regulatory measures, the number of new chiral drugs registered in the form of pure enantiomers has increased over ...
Ružena Čižmáriková+4 more
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Cocaine is a naturally occurring compound indigenous to the Andes Mountains, West Indies, and Java. It was the first anesthetic to be discovered and is the only naturally occurring local anesthetic; all others are synthetically derived.
Carrie Schroeder, Kristopher Schroeder
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