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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) this month announced that UC Davis Medical Center has renewed ...

3. The findings were part of Michigan’s green anesthesia initiative, launched in March 2022. The initiative aimed to reduce the use of nitrous oxide, use less environmentally harmful inhaled ...

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 ...

After the depth of anesthesia progressed to Plane 1 or 2 of Stage III, 10 to 45 mg. of succinylcholine di-iodide* was administered intravenously. Forty-five to sixty seconds later the vocal cords ...