Local Anaesthetics: Individual Agents
- Previous year questions on Local Anaesthetics: Individual Agents for NEET PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Postgraduate), from the Anaesthesia section of the exam.
- Most questions here come from previous-year papers of Indian postgraduate medical entrance and licensing exams; where a paper and year are recorded the question carries them. The image-based questions are original vignettes written around an openly licensed figure, and were never asked in any exam.
- 79 live questions in Local Anaesthetics: Individual Agents.
- 3 of 79 questions carry a verified exam year: 2017, 2018, 2019.
- Anaesthesia is worth about 6 of 300 questions on the exam. See every subject’s weightage.
- Question set last updated 20 Aug 2026.
Q1.Maximum safe dose of bupivacaine
- A1 mg/kg
- B2 mg/kg✓ Correct answer
- C3 mg/kg
- D5 mg/kg
Q2.Local anaesthetic with prolonged action
- AProcaine
- BCocaine
- CLidocaine
- DDibucaine✓ Correct answer
Q3.Maximum dose of lignocaine with adrenaline (in mg/kg) -
- A4
- B5
- C7✓ Correct answer
- D10
Q4.Eutectic mixture of local anaesthetic (EMLA) cream is -
- ABupivacaine 2.0% + Prilocaine 2.5%
- BLidocaine 2.5% + Prilocaine 2.5%✓ Correct answer
- CLidocaine 2.5% + Prilocaine 5%
- DBupivacaine 0.5% + Lidocaine 2.5%
Q5.Most cardiotoxic local anaesthetic agent
- ABupivacaine✓ Correct answer
- BRopivacaine
- CDibucaine
- DLevobupivacaine
Q6.Most cardiotoxic local anaesthetic is-
- ABupivacaine✓ Correct answer
- BProcaine
- CPrilocaine
- DDibucaine
Q7.For spinal anesthesia, lignocaine is used as
- A0.5 % solution
- B1 % solution
- C2 % solution
- D5% solution✓ Correct answer
Q8.Shortest acting local anaesthetic
- AProcaine
- BXylocaine
- CBupivacaine
- DChloroprocaine✓ Correct answer
Q9.Most cardiotoxic local anesthetic -
- AProcaine
- BBupivacaine✓ Correct answer
- CCocaine
- DLidocaine
Q10.Percentage of tetracaine used in eye surgery?
- A0.50%✓ Correct answer
- B1%
- C2%
- D4%
Answer key
Q1: B. 2 mg/kg; Q2: D. Dibucaine; Q3: C. 7; Q4: B. Lidocaine 2.5% + Prilocaine 2.5%; Q5: A. Bupivacaine; Q6: A. Bupivacaine; Q7: D. 5% solution; Q8: D. Chloroprocaine; Q9: B. Bupivacaine; Q10: A. 0.50%.
Other topics in Anaesthesia
- History and Ethics of Anaesthesia
- Preoperative Assessment of the Patient
- Intraoperative CNS and CVS Monitoring
- Respiratory Monitoring During Anaesthesia
- Devices for Airway Management
- Intubation
- Anaesthetic Breathing Circuits
- The Anaesthesia Machine and Workstation
- Basic and Paediatric Life Support (BLS and PALS)
- ACLS
- Ventilators and O2 Delivery Devices
- Depolarising Neuromuscular Blockers
- Non-Depolarising Neuromuscular Blockers
- Inhaled Anaesthetics: Basic Properties, N2O and Halothane
- Inhaled Anaesthetics: Fluorinated and Inert Agents with Therapeutic Gases
- Intravenous Anaesthesia: Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines and Propofol
- Intravenous Anaesthesia: Etomidate, Ketamine and Day-care Surgery
- Local Anaesthetics: Pharmacology and Properties
- Regional Anaesthesia: Methods and Approaches
- Regional Anaesthesia: Risks and Contraindications
- Peripheral Nerve Blockade
- Anaesthetic Implications of Coexisting Disease
- Anaesthesia in Paediatrics and Obstetrics
- Pain Management: Postoperative, Chronic and Cancer Pain
- Perioperative Anaesthetic Complications