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, ...

Safety in pediatric sedation relies on strict guidelines and monitoring, so let's learn how providers utilize pharmacological ...

Nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, is emerging from the dental chair and operating room as one of the most intriguing new tools for tackling severe depression. A growing body of research ...

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 ...

Before giving birth, I was terrified of labor. To be honest, I wasn’t entirely convinced that the baby was going to come out the way my medical providers said she was. After doing some homework, ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. — -- A Minneapolis mom who wanted a natural birth was more than 13 hours into labor when she felt she wasn't going to make it ...