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Nitrous Oxide Availability

The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1980
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is marketed as an inhalation anesthetic and as a food ingredient (e.g., whipping cream propellant). In the human, inhalation has been associated with "highs," peripheral nerve damage, mitotic poisoning of bone marrow, psychosis, and mental impairment. Exposure to hypoxemic mixtures has resulted in death.
M J, Murray, W J, Murray
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Nitrous Oxide Analgesia

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984
To the Editor.— I read with interest the recent article by Fosburg and Crone 1 entitled "Nitrous Oxide Analgesia for Refractory Pain in the Terminally Ill." Although their technique of providing nitrous oxide (N 2 O) analgesia seems safe, I am concerned about this practice for two reasons.
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Nitrous Oxide Analgesia

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1988
Great strides have been made in the prehospital and Emergency Department management of patients, yet the relief of pain and suffering is something that is often forgotten or, if not overlooked, provided in a suboptimal fashion. It is too easy not to feel the pain the patient has or that is is produced while one is seeking to help. The optimal analgesic
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On Nitrous Oxide

Archives of Surgery, 1978
Malfunction of any nitrous oxide, or nitrous oxide/oxygen, delivery system can lead to harm or death of the patient. The magnitude of the problem is not known, since reporting in the medical literature is spotty at best, and reporting in the lay press is attended by much fanfare.
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