Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Oct 2001
200 years of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)--and the end of an era?
The history of nitrous oxide is more than 200 years old and its clinical use as anaesthetic is more than 150 years old. The symposium discussed the question whether nitrous oxide should maintain its traditional role as a component of the anaesthetic breathing gas in everdays anaesthetic procedure or whether there are indications not to continue the regular use of nitrous oxide. ⋯ The new anaesthesia machines allow the combination of oxygen and air as breathing gas, there are new inhalational agents (e. g. desflurane, xenon) as controllable as nitrous oxide and new i. v. agents. As a conclusion of these developments the Department of Anaesthesiology at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has decided to cease the traditional use of nitrous oxide.