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The death rate due to neuroleptanalgesia (0.35%) was significantly lower than for barbiturate anaesthesia (1.59%). Complications were few even when animals received multiple, repeated, anaesthesia, and depth of anaesthesia could be adjusted easily. Further, it could be reversed within minutes by the specific antagonist diprenorphine.
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