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Local Anaesthetic Toxicity

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This illustration summarise the effects of local anaesthetic toxicity through anthropomorphization

Local anaesthetic toxicity take onset about the face: peri-oral numbness, paraesthesia, tinnitus and confusion, leading to coma, seizure and cardiac toxicity. The arrow details the progression of symptoms. Again, I chose to anthropomorphize the organs for this flashcard.

Local Anaesthetic Toxicity Tox Flashcard

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Brian Kloss is an emergency medicine physician and assistant professor at the SUNY Upstate Medical University and the VA Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. Author of Kloss and Bruce | Toxicology Flashcards | Tox Flashcards | @EM_Pearls | +Brian Kloss

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