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Forty-five spinal cord injury patients undergoing trans-urethral surgery were anaesthetised using a mixture of nitrous oxide and halothane in oxygen. The use of halothane to control the hypertensive manifestations of surgically induced autonomic hyperreflexia is discussed.
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Alderson, J., Thomas, D. The use of halothane anaesthesia to controlautonomic hyperreflexia during trans-urethral surgery in spinal cord injury patients. Spinal Cord 13, 183–188 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1975.29
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