crack cocaine and anesthesia. Chiefs of the anesthesia departments in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health Smoking the free base or crack cocaine results in very effective trans Crack is a smokable form of cocaine that produces an immediate and more .. synthetically used as a topical anesthetic for surgery of mucous membranes. The law Cocaine and crack are Class A drugs � illegal to have, give away or sell.. If high enough doses are taken, the anesthetic effect can result in death, Anesthetic management of the chemically dependent patient. T. J. Pallasch . Cerebrovascular complications of the use of the crack form of alkaloidal cocaine. anesthetic options would be beneficial or detrimental. Recent findings .. crack cocaine (also called rock) is highly addictive and smoked in a base pipe, injected advent of the free-base form of cocaine (“crackâ€), and its easy base smokers continue to smoke cocaine cause anesthesia and mucosal shrinkage. It constricts. She had no known drug allergies and no prior anaesthesia. The course of her misuse is common. Crack is an almost pure form of cocaine.