Local Anaesthetic Agents
Local Anaesthetic Agents
- With respect to local anaesthetics, the core curriculum asks for knowledge of:
- Their additional effects, including anti-arrhythmic properties
- Mechanism of action
- Clinical factors influencing choice of LA
- Local anaesthetic toxicity and management thereof
- The time-poor candidate may wish to read the 'general principles' page and cross their fingers a more intensive interrogation fails to materialise.
- General principles of local anaesthetic pharmacology
- Amide local anaesthetics
- Ester local anaesthetics
- Local anaesthetic toxicity (from the clinical incident section)