All LAs contain an aromatic ring and an amine at opposite ends of the molecule, separated by a hydrocarbon chain, and either an ester or an amide bond.īIOPHYSICS OF VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS AND LOCAL ANESTHETICS.All other LAs either exist as racemates or have no asymmetric carbons. Both are S(–)-enantiomers, avoiding the increased cardiac toxicity associated with racemic mixtures and the R(+)-isomers (this is discussed in a subsequent section). Ropivacaine and levobupivacaine are the only commercially available single-enantiomer (single-optical-isomer) LAs.
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A related series of amide LAs based on 2’,6’-pipecoloxylidide was introduced (mepivacaine, bupivacaine, ropivacaine, and levobupivacaine). Other amide LAs based on the lidocaine structure (prilocaine, etidocaine) subsequently appeared. Lidocaine quickly became used for all forms of regional anesthesia. The introduction of the amide LA lidocaine in 1948 was transformative. Procaine, the first synthetic ester LA, was introduced in 1904 by Einhorn. Cocaine, the archetypical ester, is the only naturally occurring LA. Wines fortified with cocaine were particularly popular as “tonics.” (Used with permission from Addiction Research Unit, University of Buffalo.) MEDICINAL CHEMISTRYĬocaine and all other LAs contain an aromatic ring and an amine at opposite ends of the molecule, separated by a hydrocarbon chain, and either an ester or an amide bond ( Figure 2). Examples of products that incorporated cocaine during the time before it became a controlled substance. This practice ended when cocaine became regulated by the forerunner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the early 1900s.įIGURE 1. Wine tonics and other “patent” medicines of the day commonly contained cocaine ( Figure 1). Cocaine was soon incorporated into many other products, including the original formulation of Coca-Cola devised by Pemberton in 1886. Fidel Pages reported using epidural anesthesia for abdominal surgery in 1921. In 1911, Hirschel reported the first three percutaneous brachial plexus anesthesias. Bier described intravenous regional anesthesia in 1909. Caudal epidural anesthesia was introduced in 1902 by Sicard and Cathelin.
Cocaine spinal anesthesia was used to treat cancer pain in 1898. Spina anesthesia with cocaine was first accomplished in 1898 by August Bier. Leonard Corning injected cocaine near the spine of dogs, producing what was likely the first epidural in 1885. These blocks were accomplished by surgically exposing the nerves, then injecting them under direct vision. The American surgeon William Halsted at Roosevelt Hospital in New York reported using cocaine to produce mandibular nerve block in 1884 and to produce brachial plexus block less than a year later. The use of local anesthesia quickly spread around the world. The birth of local and regional anesthesia dates from 1884, when Koller and Gartner reported their success at producing topical cocaine anesthesia of the eye in the frog, rabbit, dog, and human. Koller and Joseph Gartner began a series of experiments using cocaine to produce topical anesthesia of the conjunctiva. Freud and Carl Koller (an ophthalmology trainee) took cocaine orally and noticed that the drug rendered their tongues insensible. Freud reviewed his experimental work in a monograph devoted to cocaine, Über Coca. Sigmund Freud was the most prominent of these cocaine experimenters. The Merck Company distributed batches of this agent to physicians for investigational purposes. In Vienna, the chemist Albert Niemann isolated and crystallized pure cocaine hydrochloride in 1860. Cocaine was brought back to Vienna by an explorer/physician named Scherzer. This practice probably marks the birth of “free-basing” cocaine and is the historic antecedent of the “rock” or “crack” cocaine so often abused in Western societies. These cocadas released the free-base cocaine as a consequence of the alkalinity of the guano and of the practice of chewing the cocadas with ash or lime (such alkaline compounds increase pH, favoring the free-base cocaine form over the positively charged hydrochloride salt). The laborers generally rolled the cocaine leaves into balls (called cocadas), bound together by guano or cornstarch.
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