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, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors in San Francisco are at the forefront of a movement to replace the drugs used for general anesthesia, which have been determined to be contributing to our climate change ...

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 ...

NYC Health + Hospitals has reduced carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in its anesthesia practices systemwide by 52% since 2022. The system reached the milestone by deactivating the use of central ...

Dental hygienists in New York now can administer local infiltration anesthesia and nitrous oxide to patients while assisting dentists with all dental procedures, thanks to a bill that was recently ...

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.

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 ...

While nitrous oxide gas has been used recreationally and medically for more than 200 years - originally for its euphoric and then for its pain relieving and anesthetic properties - the mechanism ...