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Every day our QAS paramedics provide pain relief to our patients. #ThrowbackThur…

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Every day our QAS paramedics provide pain relief to our patients. #ThrowbackThursday looks back at an earlier time when there was only a single option for pain relief (analgesia) in the QATB during the 1970s and 1980s.

Entonox was still in use for paramedics into the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an equal-parts mixture of the gases Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen. Nitrous Oxide is commonly known as laughing gas. Some may have also known it as “the maternity ward gas”. Previous to the…



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