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Anesthetic agents

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Anesthetic agents
Medication or drugs that can be injected with a needle or rubbed onto and area to make it numb before a surgical procedure. Anesthesia drugs may also be given by mouth, breathed in as a gas, or injected into a vein or muscle to make a patient relaxed or unconscious.
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This is because physicians typically use multiple anesthetic agents during surgery, some of which sedate the patient and put them to sleep, while others block pain.
Despite the development of anesthetic agents with similar properties and more favorable safety profiles, however, cocaine solutions are still widely used as topical anesthetic agents primarily in otolaryngological procedures due to the unique vasoconstrictive potency of cocaine in limiting epistaxis during intranasal procedures.
Pediatric patients, patients with an LMA and patients who cannot tolerate certain anesthetic agents will benefit from the use of these modes.
 
 
 
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