Provide four reasons why it is important for a clinician to know which concomitant drugs a patient is taking prior to the administration of local anesthetics

What will be an ideal response?

1. They may influence the choice of local anesthetic drug and quantity administered.
2. They may affect the efficacy, metabolism, and elimination of a local anesthetic drug.
3. They may potentiate the actions or delay the metabolism of local anesthetic drugs.
4. They may be affected by the local anesthetic drugs.