Assertion: nitrous oxide | /r/HasProperty | useful
Facets:
value: for pain
type: PURPOSE
value: due to isolated extremity injuries
type: CAUSE
value: due to cardiac chest pain
type: CAUSE
value: because of the second gas effect
type: CAUSE
value: due to burns
type: CAUSE
value: due to renal colic
type: CAUSE
value: particularly
type: DEGREE
value: in medical surgery
type: LOCATION
value: for gaseous inductions
type: PURPOSE
value: in the young
type: LOCATION
value: because of its odorless quality
type: CAUSE
value: as a medical anesthetic
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Wells was stunned by the effect of the gas and concluded that nitrous oxide might be useful as a medical anesthetic.
text: Nitrous Oxide is a useful gas in medical surgery and can be used for both sedation or analgesia/anesthesia purposes as well as a freezing agent in cyrosurgery.
text: Indeed, nitrous oxide is a useful agent for gaseous inductions in the young because of its odorless quality and the second gas effect, and there is no evidence currently that its use in this circumstance will negatively affect a child’s neurodevelopment.
text: It is particularly useful for pain due to isolated extremity injuries, burns, renal colic and cardiac chest pain when morphine or other narcotics are contraindicated.
text: The reader should also note that we have focused on nitrous oxide’s ability to provoke toxicity; however, nitrous oxide may still have a role in some patients, e.g. , nitrous oxide does not provoke malignant hyperthermia like other volatile anesthetic agents and may be useful in patients at risk from this disorder.