Are local anesthesia vials similar to champagne: Do they lose their potency once opened?: An in vitro study

• Auteurs principaux: P S Gopinath Thilak (Auteur), Sameep S Shetty (Auteur), Jagadeesh Chandra (Auteur), Kavana Gowda (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Background and Objectives: Epinephrine is volatile and unstable on exposure to air. Addition of sodium metabisulfite as an antioxidant has been effective, but there are no clear-cut consensus on its efficiency in retarding the oxidation that sets in once the anesthetic vials are kept open with a nee...