Nitrous oxide (N2O) Other names: N2O

Chemical formula: Nā‚‚O  Molecular mass: 44.013 g/mol  PubChem compound: 948

Therapeutic indications

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is indicated for:

Pain

Population group: only infants (40 days - 1 year old) , children (1 year - 12 years old) , adolescents (12 years - 18 years old) , adults (18 years old or older)

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is used exclusively for the relief of pain.

Common examples of the use of nitrous oxide are:

  • acute trauma
  • short-term relief in dental work
  • short-term relief for procedures inevitably involving pain, such as wound and burn dressing, wound debridement and suturing
  • normal labour
  • acute surgical or medical conditions in which the pain is relieved, only to return on cessation of the analgesia so allowing an unfettered assessment to be made.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments (click for details):

Contraindications

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is contraindicated in the following cases:

Pneumothorax, air embolism, decompression sickness, diving, bullous emphysema, myringoplasty, abdominal distension

at least one of
Pneumothorax
Air embolism
Bends
Diving barotrauma
Chronic bullous emphysema
Myringoplasty
Abdominal distension symptom

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