New protocols could cut emissions associated with surgical anesthesia in half—with no adverse effects on patient outcomes ...

How can greener anesthesia help both patients and the environment? This is what a recent study published in The Lancer Planetary Health hopes to address as | Earth And The Environment ...

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 ...

N2O serves a medical role as an anesthesia and an analgesic. In food preparation, it is used for aeration and to create bubbles in products like whipped cream, beer, seltzer and soft drinks.

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 ...

At the heart of this progress are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists/Anesthetists (CRNAs) -- advanced practice ...

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.

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 ...