Giving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for noncardiac surgery doesn't increase the rate of complications and death -- and might even decrease the risk of such events, according to a ...

Giving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for noncardiac surgery doesn't increase the rate of complications and death -- and might even decrease the risk of such events, according to a ...

Giving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for noncardiac surgery doesn't increase the rate of complications and death—and might even decrease the risk of such events.

Nitrous oxide is 274 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and remains in the atmosphere for 114 years. When it comes to most of the inhaled anesthesia, patients metabolize less ...

Nitrous oxide is commonly administered at the tail end of surgery, to keep a patient unconscious while more potent ether anesthetics clear from his or her system, or is administered along with the ...

In a previous ENGIMA trial, 2,050 patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery were randomly assigned to receive anesthesia with or without nitrous oxide. In the study, an unexpectedly high number of heart ...

“Of the anesthetic and inhalational agents administered intraoperatively, only nitrous oxide has a known association with methemoglobinemia; however, the possibility of a synergistic ...

The sweet, odorless gas technically called nitrous oxide has many names: laughing gas, galaxy gas, hippy crack, whippets, ...

The science underpinning the potential rapid anti-depressant quality of nitrous oxide was compared to similar effects seen in ketamine, another old anesthetic recently repurposed for psychiatric uses.

About 3% of greenhouse gas emissions in the health care system come from anesthesia—specifically, inhaled gases such as ...

Giving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for noncardiac surgery doesn't increase the rate of complications and death—and might even decrease the risk of such events, according to a ...