23 patients were evaluated following surgery under general anesthesia with enflurane or halothane. Data on the M tests of the modified GATB gave significant differences 1 ½, 2 ½, and 3 ½ hr. after the end of the period of anesthesia when compared with the baseline. The performance of a control group shows lack of reliability of this form of the test.
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