Buffering and the ABC Protocol: Local Anesthesia’s Gold Standard

This course will focus on the science of local anesthesia and the factors that contribute to inconsistent anesthetic performance, describing among other things how the body must overcome the acidity of local anesthetic injections before the anesthetic can take effect. This course covers topics including: pharmacology of local anesthetics, chemistry, physiology, local anesthetics in infected tissue’s: causes of injection pain; measuring and achieving anesthetic success, how to eliminate certain types of failures with local anesthesia. A review of the ABC protocol will be discussed, to help understand why it is the new gold standard.