Click Here For Local Anesthesia Strategies – Part One In this second part of my curator's journal on local anesthesia I will look at the strategies to give injections from two point of view. The first is to maximize the effectiveness of anesthesia and help take some of the stress out of wondering if the patient will become profoundly numb. The second aspect is the patient experience and maximizing comfort. This brief collection of very simple ideas can make local anesthesia more effective and predictable. They did that for me.