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Letter to the Editor| Volume 43, ISSUE 2, P235-237, March 2016

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Hypoventilation exacerbates the cardiovascular depression caused by a high volume of lumbosacral epidural bupivacaine in two isoflurane-anesthetized dogs

      This letter reports the cardiopulmonary changes resulting from lumbosacral epidural administration of bupivacaine (0.25%, 0.6 mL kg−1) in isoflurane-anesthetized dogs.
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