User:Mr. Ibrahem/Prilocaine

Prilocaine, sold under the trade name Citanest among others, is a local anesthetic used for numbing a specific area, for a nerve block, or as part of spinal anesthesia. It is used by injection. It is also available as a lidocaine/prilocaine cream.

Side effects may include dizziness, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, nausea, and arrhythmia. Other side effects may include methemoglobinemia and cardiac arrest. Use in pregnancy appears to be relatively safe. It is an amide type local anesthetic.

Prilocaine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1965. In the United Kingdom 50 mL of a 1% solution costs about £5. Manufacture has been discontinued in the United States as of 2012; though it previously costs about 1 USD for 1.8 mL of a 4% solution.