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Failure of local anesthesia

Technical shortcoming or true resistance?

Versagen der Lokalanästhesie

Technische Unzulänglichkeit oder echte Resistenz? Englische Version

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The authors are grateful to Sally Aldhoven for the translation.

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  1. Abteilung für Anästhesie, Intensivmedizin, Rettungsdienst und Schmerzmedizin, Bürgerspital Solothurn, Schöngruenstr. 42, 4500, Solothurn, Switzerland

    Franz Hötschl & Florian Marti

  2. Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Philipp Lirk

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Hötschl, F., Lirk, P. & Marti, F. Failure of local anesthesia. Anaesthesiologie 72, 723–725 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00101-023-01295-z

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