Question 35 of 35

Delivering Local Anesthetics

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After applying topical anesthetic to an injection site for 4 minutes, the clinician notices that the epithelium is sloughing in the area where the topical was applied. This can be due to:

  1. presence of vasoconstrictor in the topical anesthetic
  2. topical anesthetic was held too long in the area
  3. the high degree of water solubility of the topical anesthetic
  4. the low degree of water solubility of the topical anesthetic