Local anaesthesia causing methemoglobinemia is an effect of which of the following agents?
Correct Answer: Prilocaine
Description: reduces the amount of hemoglobin that is available for oxygen transpo this side effect is potentially life threatening. Drugs causing Methemoglobinemia: Sulfonamides Primaquine Nitrobenzene Prilocaine Aminophenones Anilines Ref: Morgan Anaesthesia, 4th Edition, Page 269
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