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Speed of onset of local anaesthetics and another textbook correction!

Anaesthesia Coffee Break

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Is There Evidence to Support the Idea of Active Nerves?

Is there evidence to support the idea of active nerves that is moving the limb to increase the nerve channel opening, speeding the onset by allowing faster access to the interior of the cell? So you're talking about this is frequency dependent block. I don't know whether there's evidence, but I think that there's that. And what that means is that as you continue, as you continually allow to open up more channels through this, then the more channels get blocked.

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