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, ...

Nitrous oxide, an effective and inexpensive anesthetic, is safe for surgical patients who have or are at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to results of a large randomized controlled trial.

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 ...

A Redding doctor is sounding the alarm about misuse of nitrous oxide as a drug in Shasta County. Here's what to know about NO ...

Nitrous oxide, an effective and inexpensive anesthetic, is safe for surgical patients who have or are at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to results of a large randomized controlled trial ...

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 ...

Researchers have now revealed brainwave changes in patients receiving nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." Nitrous oxide, commonly known as "laughing gas," has been used in anesthesiology practice since ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vasectomy Clinic of San Diego has introduced Nitrous Oxide sedation to its already minimally invasive No Needle No Scalpel Vasectomy technique. This is the first time ...

CINCINNATI -- Sometimes progress means walking things back a few paces, reaching for older technologies. Such may be the case in childbirth, where the use of nitrous oxide has been revived in this ...

VISTA, Calif. — A nine-year-old girl died in March from "methemoglobinemia in the setting of recent nitrous oxide administration" following dental surgery in Vista, the Medical Examiner's Office ...