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  2. Local anesthetic - Wikipedia

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    Many local anesthetics fall into two general chemical classes, amino esters (top) and amino amides (bottom). A local anesthetic (LA) is a medication that causes absence of all sensation (including pain) in a specific body part without loss of consciousness, [1] providing local anesthesia, as opposed to a general anesthetic, which eliminates all sensation in the entire body and causes ...

  3. Local anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Local anesthesia, in a strict sense, is anesthesia of a small part of the body such as a tooth or an area of skin. Regional anesthesia is aimed at anesthetizing a larger part of the body such as a leg or arm. Conduction anesthesia encompasses a great variety of local and regional anesthetic techniques.

  4. List of local anesthetics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of local anesthetic agents. Not all of these drugs are still used in clinical practice and in research. Some are primarily of historical interest.

  5. Local anesthetic nerve block - Wikipedia

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    Nerve block or regional nerve blockade is any deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief. Local anesthetic nerve block (sometimes referred to as simply "nerve block") is a short-term block, usually lasting hours or days, involving the injection of an anesthetic, a corticosteroid, and other agents onto or near a nerve.

  6. Anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Systemic local anesthetics: local anesthetics are given systemically (orally or intravenous) to relieve neuropathic pain. A 2018 Cochrane review found moderate quality evidence that regional anesthesia may reduce the frequency of persistent postoperative pain (PPP) from 3 to 18 months following thoracotomy and 3 to 12 months following caesarean ...

  7. Anesthetic - Wikipedia

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    Leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum novogranatense var. Novogranatense), from which cocaine, a naturally occurring local anesthetic, is derived. [1] [2]An anesthetic (American English) or anaesthetic (British English; see spelling differences) is a drug used to induce anesthesia ⁠— ⁠in other words, to result in a temporary loss of sensation or awareness.

  8. Category:Local anesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Template:Local anesthetics This page was last edited on 28 April 2019, at 21:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  9. Pudendal anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Pudendal anesthesia (pudendal nerve block, pudendal block or saddle block) is a form of local anesthesia. Pudendal anesthesia can be used to diagnose as well as treat illnesses. [ 1 ] A nerve block is the use of local anesthetic (e.g lidocaine ) to inhibit the sensation of pain caused by one or multiple nerves. [ 2 ]