Local anesthetic systemic toxicity: Continuing Professional Development
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Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity.
Local anesthetics are commonly used in the perioperative environment to facilitate surgical procedures or to provide postoperative pain management for patients. The use of local anesthetics, however, introduces the risk of complications resulting from local anesthetic systemic toxicity and the risks of increased morbidity and mortality for the surgical patient. Systemic toxicity from the inject...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0832-610X,1496-8975
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-015-0564-z