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Use of an Integrated Low-Flow Anesthetic Vaporizer, Ventilator, and Physiological Monitoring System for Rodents
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The use of combined inhalation anesthesia in laboratory animal surgery
1Department of Pathology, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Ill., USA.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
|March 15, 2012
Abstract:
General anesthesia was induced successfully in 250 laboratory rats by use of a gas machine, human infant-type mask, and combinations of oxygen, nitrous oxide, helium, carbon dioxide, and ether. Ease and speed of induction and recovery and a relatively wide margin of safety were offered by use of the gas machine.
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