For the study, the researchers started the Green Anesthesia Initiative (GAIA) in March 2022 to monitor the use of pollutant-free—such as nitrous oxide—anesthesia aged 1 year and older between March 1, ...

During this time, surgeons routinely chose nurses to give anesthesia to patients. Fast forward to the early 20th century to Agatha Hodgins, a nurse who pioneered nitrous oxide anesthesia while ...

The death of the former My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar has drawn renewed attention towards nitrous oxide, the gas that was allegedly found next to his corpse.

The findings culminate from The Green Anesthesia Initiative, launched at Michigan Medicine in March 2022, which aimed to reduce the use of nitrous oxide, use less environmentally harmful inhaled ...

Which receptors mediate anesthesia remains unclear ... for inhaled anesthetics vary from a low of about 0.45 for nitrous oxide and desflurane and 0.65 for sevoflurane to 1.4 for isoflurane ...

The findings culminate from The Green Anesthesia Initiative, launched at Michigan Medicine in March 2022 aimed to reduce the use of nitrous oxide, use less environmentally harmful inhaled ...

In March 2022, the system launched a Green Anesthesia Initiative to minimize the use of nitrous oxide and inhaled fluorinated ethers — which are environmentally harmful — while increasing the ...

but by NOT providing nitrous oxide, the inadvertent administration of a hypoxic gas mixture is eliminated. The FDA approved OBA-1® MRI Compact Anesthesia Unit can be safely used in a MRI scan ...

Removal of nitrous oxide in locations outside of the OR could contribute to two different standards of anesthesia care." Separating nitrous oxide and oxygen wall outlets is one option, but it may ...

The center also offered nitrous oxide gas as an alternative to anesthesia with fewer numbing effects.