Patient was having a skin biopsy on the forehead


Question: A patient was having a skin biopsy on the forehead at the blue dot and lidocaine 1with epinephrine 1 100.000 was injected at the blue dot. Just as the plunger was pushed the patient experienced immediate lancinating pain and this photo was taken and sent to you for review. Which of the following statements is correct? Need Online Tutoring? The local anesthetic is beginning to work as documented by the blanching and pain The local anesthetic is out of date and the patient is having a localized allergic reaction The local anesthetic was placed inadvertently in a vessel producing the severe symptoms and blanching pattern seen in the image None of the above is correct as this is what lidocaine with epinephrine from a stock

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