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Nitrous oxide used to be
quite popular in the U.S.
through the mid-century.
Then there was the advent
of epidurals, and its use
went completely away,"
- Priscilla Nodine, PhD, CNM.

RESEARCH

M

uch like a mother's
belly in the ninth
month of pregnancy, the use of
nitrous oxide has
ballooned since the
University of Colorado Hospital joined
a small number of U.S. hospitals offering "laughing gas" to its laboring
patients in 2014.
Then a "pioneer" of sorts, the hospital became the first in the Rocky
Mountain Region to provide the alternative, which is more common in
this country in a dentist office than in
a birthing room.
Now, with more than 1,000 hospitals
and 300 birth centers in the country
having followed suit, research on the
Anschutz Medical Campus continues
CU's trailblazing efforts. Studies looking at everything from the Mile High
altitude's effect on nitrous oxide to
how often women who choose the gas
convert to other pain management options, such as epidurals, are underway.

As Nitrous Oxide Catches
On in Birthing Rooms, CU
Nursing Blazes Research Trail
By Debra Melani

CU College of Nursing | Spring/Summer 2020

USE OF NITROUS OXIDE REEMERGES IN U.S. BIRTHING ROOMS
"Nitrous oxide used to be quite
popular in the United States through
the mid-century," said Priscilla
Nodine, PhD, CNM. "Then there was
the advent of epidurals, and its use
went completely away," she said of
the inhaled gas during a CU Nursing



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