Question 23 of 35

Delivering Local Anesthetics

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After administering a left PSA injection to a patient, swelling becomes evident on the left side of her face within a few minutes. What has most likely occured to this patient:

  1. the nerve has been damaged during the injection
  2. contaminated anesthetic solution has been administered
  3. the anesthetic solutions were administered too quickly
  4. the needle inadvertently nicked the pterygoid plexus of veins