In order to mitigate patient’s procedure-associated anxiety, providers have access to Pro-Nox Nitrous gas when providing radio-frequency microneedling services to patients.
Some points on this system:
- Pro-Nox is an FDA-cleared pain management device, and is considered an analgesic, not anesthesia. The system delivers a fixed blend of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, and oxygen
- Given this fixed blend, there is negligible risk of patients losing consciousness
- The system only delivers nitrous oxide on demand through a one-way valve during inhalation, so patients must actively work to inhale the mixture, there is no continuous flow.
- When the patient stops inhaling from the Pro-Nox system, the concentration of nitrous oxide
within the blood and its effects on the patient are both markedly diminished within one
minute, and clinical neurological effects are entirely reversed within 5-7 minutes
Indications for treatment
To provide analgesic relief of procedure-associated anxiety prior to receiving treatment services at Portrait that may include pain and/or increase procedure related anxiety
Contraindications of treatment
- Pregnancy
- nasal obstruction
- pulmonary hypertension
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
- active cystic fibrosis,
- recent tympanic membrane surgery,
- claustrophobia,
- current intoxication/impaired consciousness