Local Anesthetics - General Principles

History

History: Clinical local anesthetics refer almost exclusively to the ester and amide-linked sodium channel blockers synthesized from the benzoate ring of cocaine isolated from the coca plant of Peru. Other sodium channel blockers exist, but unless otherwise specified (in Chapter 19, Section IV.A) “local anesthetics” refers to the cocaine derivatives.

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