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* 1. What is your first name?

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* 2. What is your last name?

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* 3. What is your email address?

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* 4. Which of the following measures were used in this study to compare nociceptive blunting and analgesic efficacy between the two treatment groups and the placebo group?

A. Perioperative heart rates
B. Surgeon satisfaction with anesthetic depth
C. Surgeon satisfaction with ease of skin incision

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* 5. The dose for the intratesticular blocks tested in this study was:

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* 6. Surgeon-reported tissue quality for each treatment group was __________ , while anesthetic depth at the time of castration __________ with treatment group and surgeon satisfaction.

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* 7. Post-operatively …
A. There were no significant associations between pain and treatment group
B. There were no significant associations between tissue swelling or bruising
C. Both pain and tissue bruising were found to be significantly associated with treatment group

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* 8. Which of the following is a reported benefit of local anesthetics in the literature?

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