Local Anesthetic Toxicity Symptoms

[HQuinn]

Hi everyone,

Doing a quiz and need some help with ordering the symptoms of local anesthetic toxicity in the order they occur.

Here is the order I think, after some reading, but can't seem to get right:

1) Light-headed, visual disturbances

2) Parathesia around mouth and tongue

3) Twitching of fingers and mouth

4) Convulsions

5) Loss of consciousness

6) Respiratory arrest

7) Cardiac arrest

Thanks for any input :)

[Kuriin, BSN, RN]

Local anesthetics: systemic toxicity

[HQuinn]

Thanks for having a look guys. Managed to get the right answer which, according to the quiz, was:

1) Parathesia around mouth and tongue

2) Light-headed, visual disturbances

3) Twitching of fingers and mouth

4) Loss of consciousness

5) Convulsions

6) Respiratory arrest

7) Cardiac arrest

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

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