RT Book, Section A1 Voscopoulos, Christopher A1 Lema, Mark J. A2 Diwan, Sudhir A2 Staats, Peter S. SR Print(0) ID 1107196121 T1 Local Anesthetics T2 Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures YR 2015 FD 2015 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071738767 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1107196121 RD 2024/10/09 AB Local anesthetics (LAs) are used in many clinical scenarios that require the pain practitioner to be intimately familiar with their pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties. They are used in the prevention of acute, inflammatory, nociceptive, cancer-related, neuropathic, and chronic pain, for diagnostic and prognostic purposes, and in the possible prevention of chronic pain.1