Using nitrous oxide for anesthesia doesn't increase -- and may decrease -- complications and death

Giving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for noncardiac surgery doesn't increase the rate of complications and death -- and might even decrease the risk of such events, according to a pair of studies in the May issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/wkh...