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Chemical characteristics of the various local anaesthetics are described: moreover their mechanism of action, toxicity, and the remedies to the latter.
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Grossi, P., Alemanno, F. (2020). Local Anaesthetics. In: Alemanno, F. (eds) Biochemistry for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26721-6_16
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