Zusammenfassung der Ressource
LA Intro
- DEFINITION
- Anesthesia - Insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of
gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations
- TYPES
- Local
- Regional
- General
- INDICATION
- Topical anesthesia
- anesthetize the skin, mucous membranes or cornea
- absorption when the mucosa is dried
- Comes as form of solution, ointment, cream or spray
- Others (Eg. Iontophoresis)
- small electric current to force molecules of the anesthesia into the tissue
- Does not need injection
- Can be used for child
- Injection
- Infiltration
- Most common
- injected directly into subcutaneous tissue just under the skin
- Epinephrine can be added to decrease dosage and prolong its duration of action
- Regional nerve block
- Blocks the conductivity of sensory nerves
- • injected into or adjacent to a peripheral nerve or nerve plexus
- MECHANISM
- Local anesthetic will bind to a receptor inside the sodium channels and antagonize it
- closing the sodium channels
- nerve membrane become less permeable to sodium
- prevent depolarization and nerve activity
- patient will not feel any pain
- COMPONENTS
- Local anesthetic drug
- Vasoconstrictor drug
- Preservative for vasoconstrictor drug
- Sodium chloride
- Distilled water
- General preservatives
- CONTRAINDICATIONS
- Diabetics
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Pregnancy (1st and 2nd trimester)
- Commonly used LAs
- Lidocaine
- Mepivacaine
- Prilocaine
- Bupivicaine
- Articaine