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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: After epidural injection, the overall means (+ / - standard deviation, SD) of HR (95 + / - 20 bpm), mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) (81 + / - 19 mmHg), CO (1. 63 + / - 0. 66 L minute (-1)), cardiac index (CI) (2. 97 + / - 1. 1 L minute (-1) m (-2)) and stroke volume index (SI) (1. 38 + / - 0. 21 mL beat (-1) kg (-1)) were significantly lower in the romifidine treatment compared with the overall means in the saline treatment [HR (129 + / - 24 bpm), MAP (89 + / - 17 mmHg), CO (3. 35 + / - 0. 86 L minute (-1)), CI (6. 17 + / - 1. 4 L minute (-1) m (-2)) and SI (2. 21 + / - 0. 21 mL beat (-1) kg (-1))].