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===[[Local anesthetic systemic toxicity|Maximum Doses of Anesthetic Agents]]===
{| class="wikitable"
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Agent'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Without [[Epinephrine]]'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''With [[Epinephrine]]'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Duration'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Notes'''
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| [[Lidocaine]]||5 mg/kg (max 300mg)||7 mg/kg (max 500mg)||30-90 min
||
*1% soln contains 10 mg/ml 
*2% soln contains 20 mg/ml

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| [[Mepivicaine]]||7 mg/kg||8 mg/kg||||
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| [[Bupivicaine]]||2.5 mg/kg (max 175mg)||3 mg/kg (max 225mg)||6-8 hr
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*0.5% soln contains 5 mg/ml
*May cause [[cardiac arrest]] if injected intravascularly
*Do not buffer with bicarbonate
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| [[Ropivacaine]]||3 mg/kg||||||
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| [[Prilocaine]]||6 mg/kg||||||
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| [[Tetracaine]]||1 mg/kg||1.5 mg/kg||3hrs (10hrs with epi)||
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| [[Procaine]]||7 mg/kg||10 mg/kg||30min (90min with epi)||
|}