A new study from Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia warns that patients receiving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for surgery may be at increased long-term risk of heart attacks, ...

A new study published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics indicates nitrous oxide gas provides a comparable analgesia to IV sedation for patients undergoing colonoscopy. The study examined 623 ...

Patients receiving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for surgery may be at increased long-term risk of myocardial infarction, according to a new study in Anesthesia & Analgesia (February ...

Some deaths from nitrous oxide have occurred after inhaling from chargers for whipped cream can dispensers. Courtesy Getty Images. It’s often called “laughing gas,” a colorless anesthetic used to ...

Researchers tested a more direct measure of anesthetic activity to increase accuracy of the model brain uptake, according to a study in the September issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. Previous modeling ...

Last month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a dental hygiene bill that allows dental hygienists to use nitrous oxide and local infiltration anesthesia to assist dentists with all dental ...

CITYWIDE — AN IMPROVED OPTIMIZED USE OF ANESTHETIC GASES, such as nitrous oxide, has helped the city’s public health system achieve a 52% annual reduction in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) emissions ...

Recently, we learned that an oxygen flow meter had been forced into a nitrous oxide wall outlet that was directly adjacent to an oxygen outlet in a radiology suite. The oxygen flow meter's index ...

Authorities said the network used legitimate shipments to France and other European countries to transport the nitrous oxide ...