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Dickinson and Franks Critical Care 2010,14:229 /content/14/4/229 REVIEW Bench-to-bedside review: Molecular pharmacology and clinical use of inert gases in anesthesia and neuroprotection Robert Dickinson * and Nicholas P Franks 1,2 1,2 of consciousness occurring at depths of about 100 meters [18,19]. Behnke and Yarbrough showed in 1938 that if helium replaced nitrogen in the breathing mixture, the nitrogen narcosis was avoided [20]. Neon is also devoid Abstract In the past decade there has been a resurgenc