Can I really block this? Surgical and medical applications of local anaesthesia Feline Internal Medicine

Internal Medicine

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Can I really block this? Surgical and medical applications of local anaesthesia Feline Internal MedicineGet the nerve to do some blocks! Local anaesthetic drugs are effective, easy to use and inexpensive. The use of local regional blocks improves anaesthetic safety by allowing the patient to be maintained at a lower dose of inhalant, thus decreasing inhalant mediated cardiovascular and respiratory depression. Local anaesthetic blockade decreases pain, both intra and post operatively. In humans, local blocks have been shown to decrease the likelihood of