Title: When nitrous oxide is no laughing matter: nitrous oxide and pediatric anesthesia
Abstract: Summary Although often felt to be relatively innocuous, nitrous oxide can have significant metabolic effects in settings of abnormal vitamin B 12 and B 12 ‐related metabolism in children. These conditions can be genetic or environmental. Symptoms may not appear until days to weeks after exposure to nitrous oxide. Although overt genetic diseases are relatively uncommon, the implications of nitrous oxide interactions with much more frequent but less symptomatically obvious single nucleotide polymorphisms are potentially more concerning. In addition, nitrous oxide can have direct and differing neurotoxic effects on both immature and aged brain, the clinical impact of which remains undetermined.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-08-03
Language: en
Type: review
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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