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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2005 5(5):176-178; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mki047
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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 5 Number 5 2005 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia [2005]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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106. With respect to the history of nitrous oxide:
  1. It was discovered in the middle of the 19th century.
  2. It was discovered by Humphrey Davy.
  3. It used to be known as dephlogisticated nitrous air.
  4. Nitrous oxide was first made by adding iron to nitric acid.
  5. Nitrous oxide was used as a form of entertainment at country fairs.

107. Concerning clinical applications of nitrous oxide:
  1. It can be used safely one week after intraocular SF6 instillation.
  2. Nitrous oxide mediated changes in middle ear pressure may disrupt ossicular chain repair.
  3. During laparoscopy, combustion may occur if the concentration of nitrous oxide in the pneumoperitoneum exceeds 29%.
  4. Nitrous oxide will cause an increase in the size of a carbon dioxide gas embolus.
  5. The teratogenicity of nitrous oxide is due only to impaired DNA synthesis.

108. Concerning the physical properties:
  1. Nitrous oxide does not support combustion.
  2. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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