Local anaesthesia causing methemoglobinemia is an effect of which of the following agents?
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
Prilocaine
Etidocaine
Ropivacaine
Procaine