<prompt> Please answer with one of the option in the bracket. Write reasoning in between . Write answer in between .Q:A 23-year-old man comes to the emergency department because of a 2-day history of painful swelling of the right hand. There is no associated recent trauma. Physical examination shows a 3 × 3-cm area of induration that is fluctuant and warm to the touch, consistent with an abscess. The patient consents to incision and drainage of the abscess in the emergency department. Following evaluation of the patients allergy status, a short-acting, local anesthetic drug is administered via subcutaneous infiltration. Which of the following local anesthetics would provide the shortest duration of analgesia?? A: Mepivacaine, B: Chloroprocaine, C: Lidocaine, D: Ropivacaine, E: Etidocaine,  <response>: This is a clinical vignette about a 23-year-old man with a painful abscess on his right hand who is undergoing incision and drainage in the emergency department. The question asks which local anesthetic would provide the shortest duration of analgesia for this procedure. To answer this, we need to consider the duration of action of the local anesthetics given in the choices. Mepivacaine, lidocaine, and chloroprocaine are short-acting local anesthetics typically used for procedures requiring brief analgesia. Ropivacaine and etidocaine have longer durations of action. Of the short-acting anesthetics, chloroprocaine has the shortest duration of action.B: Chloroprocaine 