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Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics

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Understand the basic mechanisms of local anesthetic action and metabolism

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  1. Evers AS, Maze M, Kharasch ED (2011) Anesthetic pharmacology – basic principles and clinical practice. Cambridge University Press, New York

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  2. Morgan GE, Mikhail MS, Murray MJ (2006) Local anesthetics. In: Clinical anesthesiology. McGraw Hill, New York

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  3. Cousins MJ, Bridenbaugh PO, Carr DB, Horlocker TT (2008) Neural blockade in clinical anesthesia and pain medicine. Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, Philadelphia

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Indiana University Hospital, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    John W. Wolfe MD

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Indiana University School of Medicine, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Jerome M. Adams MD, MPH

  3. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld MD, MPH (Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Director Education Research)

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Correspondence to Jerome M. Adams MD, MPH .

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Perioperative Services,Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Scott Segal

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Wolfe, J.W., Adams, J.M., Ehrenfeld, J.M. (2016). Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Urman, R., Segal, S. (eds) Anesthesia Student Survival Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11083-7_6

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