A patient, without prior medication, breathes a gas mixture consisting of 50 percent nitrous oxide and 50 percent oxygen by volume. Which of the following effects would be expected_____________?

A. Respiratory arrest

B. Excitation

C. Surgical anesthesia

D. Analgesia

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