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Although more commonly used for baloons and blimps, Helium gas is an alternative to carbon dioxide surgeons are exploring to insufflate a patient's abdomen undergoing laparoscopic abdominal procedures.

It is a gas that can help prevent respiratory acidosis—a condition that can occur when the lungs cannot remove all of the carbon dioxides the body produces.  

Helium gas, when combined with oxygen, can also be to aid the treatment of asthma, emphysema, and other respiratory conditions.