A 70 kg man requires debridement and suturing of an 18 cm laceration on his forearm in the emergency department. There is no adrenaline-containing local anaesthetic available. You plan to infiltrate 1% lignocaine.
Which one of the following is the maximum volume of 1% lignocaine that can safely be used?
Keep going — a set of ten like this one, one at a time.
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