Medical gas therapy

Medical gas therapy
Medical gas therapy
Other names	Therapeutic gas
Specialty	pulmonology; gaseous signaling molecules
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Medical gas therapy is a treatment involving the administration of various gases. It has been used in medicine since the use of oxygen therapy.^[1] Most of these gases are drugs, including oxygen.^[2] Many other gases, collectively known as factitious airs, were explored for medicinal value in the late eighteenth century. In addition to oxygen, medical gases include nitric oxide (NO), and helium-O2 mixtures (Heliox). Careful considerations and close monitoring needed when medical gases are in use. For the purpose of this article only gas mixtures are described.

^ Moncada S (1999). "Nitric oxide: discovery and impact on clinical medicine". J R Soc Med. 92 (4): 164–9. doi:10.1177/014107689909200402. PMC 1297136. PMID 10450191.
^ Kacmarek, Robert M. Fundamentals of Respiratory Care (11 ed.). Elsevier. p. 905.

[pmid10450191-1] Moncada S (1999). "Nitric oxide: discovery and impact on clinical medicine". J R Soc Med. 92 (4): 164–9. doi:10.1177/014107689909200402. PMC 1297136. PMID 10450191.

[2] Kacmarek, Robert M. Fundamentals of Respiratory Care (11 ed.). Elsevier. p. 905.

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