Summary
Local anesthesia has many advantages and is widely used today due to its low complications. The patient is awake and responsive and the stress on the entire circulation is significantly lower than with general anesthesia. Nevertheless, it is important to handle these substances with care, as they can lead to severe and even life-threatening complications if injected or dosed incorrectly.
For this reason it is important to control the exact location of the nerves and nearby structures with the help of imaging. The main areas of application of local anesthesia are operations in specific areas, obstetrics and long-term pain therapy. In the course of time, various methods of anaesthesia have been developed, which make a very precisely localized anaesthesia possible.
