Inhaled anesthetic agents include nitrous oxide (the oldest of all anesthetics) and various halogenated agents: desflurane (halogenated solely with fluorine halogenation increases potency and is ...

Encouraged by initial successes with ketamine, researchers including Peter Nagele, a professor of anesthesia and psychiatry ...

fresh gas flow rate, molecular weight, and density. The use of newer inhaled anesthetic agents with low solubility in blood and tissue provides a more rapid recovery from anesthesia than older ...

More information: Adrien Talbot et al, Greenhouse gas impact from medical emissions of halogenated anaesthetic agents: a sales-based estimate, The Lancet Planetary Health (2025). DOI: 10.1016 ...

A new study has found that greenhouse gas emissions from anesthetic gases have declined ... in Ann Arbor also predicted that switching to less-polluting inhaled anesthetic agents can reduce emissions ...

CITYWIDE — AN IMPROVED OPTIMIZED USE OF ANESTHETIC GASES ... carbon dioxide — the equivalent of taking approximately 1,100 gas-powered cars off the roads. The mitigation of CO₂e emissions ...

Each monitored gas absorbs infrared light at a slightly ... and potentially the death of the patient. Most anesthetic agents act to depress the patient's thermoregulatory centers that, along ...

Nitrous oxide-better known as "laughing gas"-can potentially transform treatment for tough-to-beat depression. This centuries-old anesthetic gas targeted specific brain cells in mice and quickly ...

Induction of anesthesia may be achieved with inhalant or injectable agents or a combination ... Rabbits will commonly hold their breath when the gas is introduced, and having the rabbit in ...