Local Flashcards
Articaine
Onset: Rapid Duration: Short Tissue Penetration: Good Plasma 1/2 Life: .5 h Unwanted Effect: as lidocaine used in dentistry, hydrolysis of side chain inactivates
Prilocaine
Onset: Medium Duration: Medium Tissue Penetration: Moderate Plasma 1/2 Life: -2 h Unwanted Effect: no vasodilator activity, methaemogloginaemia (no OB use) in
Bupivacaine
Onset: Slow Duration: Long Tissue Penetration: Moderate Plasma 1/2 Life: -2 h Unwanted Effect: as lidocaine (>card toxicity)
Tetracaine
Onset: Very slow Duration: long Tissue Penetration: Moderate Plasma 1/2 Life: -1h Unwanted Effect: as lidocaine used for spinal and corneal anaesthesia
Mepivacaine
Onset: Rapid Duration: Medium Tissue Penetration: Good Plasma 1/2 Life: -2 Unwanted Effect: as procaine less vasodilation
Lidocaine
Onset: Rapid Duration: Medium Tissue Penetration: Good Plasma 1/2 Life: -2h Unwanted Effect: as procaine (< CNS effects) IV for ventricular dysrhythmias
Procaine
Onset: Medium Duration: Short Tissue Penetration: Poor Plasma 1/2 Life: <1 h Unwanted Effect: CNS & Cards 1st synthetic agent
Cocaine
Onset: Medium Duration: Medium Tissue Penetration: Good Plasma 1/2 Life: -1h Unwanted Effect: Cardio and CNS, block of amine uptake spray for upper resp tract
Local Anesthetics
block action potential by blocking Na Channel
Amphiphilic mlcs
weak bases (need unionized to cross membrane)
LA block in the order of
small myelinated axons
non-myelinated axons
large myelinated axons
Nociceptive and sympathetic transmissions blocked 1st
C- fibers
slowest conduction smallest non-myelinated dull pain, temp, touch postganglionic autonomic
B-fibers
slower/smaller than A-fibers
slightly myelinated
Preganglionic autonomic
A-gamma fibers
Myelinated
smaller of A fibers, but larger than B/C
motor/muscle tone
A-beta fibers
Myelinated,
fast/ large diameter
motor, touch, pressure
A-alpha fibers:
Myelinated
largest / fastest
motor, proprioception
Large fibers have highest conduction velocity and lowest threshold for excitability
A-delta
Smallest/slowest of A’s
pain, temp, touch