{"id":21413,"date":"2020-05-18T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freemedicalmcqs.com\/?p=21413"},"modified":"2022-04-25T02:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T23:52:39","slug":"calculate-maximum-dose-of-local-anesthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemedicalmcqs.com\/calculate-maximum-dose-of-local-anesthetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculate Maximum Dose of Local Anesthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Local anesthetics produce anesthesia by inhibiting excitation of nerve endings or by blocking conduction in peripheral nerves. Cocaine, a compound indigenous to the Andes Mountains, West Indies, and Java,\u00a0was the first anesthetic to be discovered and is the only naturally occurring local anesthetic; all others are synthetically derived. Cocaine was introduced into Europe in the 1800s following its isolation from coca beans. Sigmund Freud, the noted Austrian psychoanalyst, used cocaine on his patients and became addicted through self-experimentation.<\/p>\n
Modern local anesthetics are amides supplied in a water soluble weak acid solution<\/p>\n
The unionised base diffuses into nerve cells and causes reversible blockade of Na+ channels in excitable neural tissue, preventing action potential propagation<\/p>\n
They are less effective in infected tissue due to the relative acidity of the tissue<\/p>\n