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3 unusual facts about Local anesthesia


Local anesthesia

Pulsed radiofrequency, neuromodulation, direct introduction of medication and nerve ablation may be used to target either the tissue structures and organ/systems responsible for persistent nociception or the nociceptors from the structures implicated as the source of chronic pain.

Non-surgical rhinoplasty

Some physicians use local anaesthesia (i.e. lidocaine injections), but that can obscure the area being injected.

Shouldice Hernia Centre

Local anesthesia is used in most surgeries, instead of general anesthesia, as the latter is unnecessary in most types of hernia surgeries, and the former is both safer and less expensive.



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Dard Divorce

Although under the effects of a local anaesthesia, she head-butts Daniel and is able to plunge a hypodermic into his eye before killing him with a knife.