Editing Argon (section)

===Medical use===
[[Cryosurgery]] procedures such as [[cryoablation]] use liquid argon to destroy tissue such as [[cancer]] cells. It is used in a procedure called "argon-enhanced coagulation", a form of argon [[plasma torch|plasma beam]] [[electrosurgery]]. The procedure carries a risk of producing [[gas embolism]] and has resulted in the death of at least one patient.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.mdsr.ecri.org/summary/detail.aspx?doc_id=8248
 |title=Fatal Gas Embolism Caused by Overpressurization during Laparoscopic Use of Argon Enhanced Coagulation
 |date=24 June 1994
 |publisher=MDSR
 |access-date=10 January 2007
 |archive-date=12 July 2021
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712040208/http://www.mdsr.ecri.org/summary/detail.aspx?doc_id=8248
 |url-status=dead
 }}</ref>

Blue [[argon laser]]s are used in surgery to weld arteries, destroy tumors, and correct eye defects.<ref name="emsley" />

Argon has also been used experimentally to replace nitrogen in the breathing or decompression mix known as [[Argox (breathing gas)|Argox]], to speed the elimination of dissolved nitrogen from the blood.<ref>
{{cite journal
 |author=Pilmanis Andrew A.
 |author2=Balldin U. I.
 |author3=Webb James T.
 |author4=Krause K. M.
 |title=Staged decompression to 3.5 psi using argon–oxygen and 100% oxygen breathing mixtures
 |journal=Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine 
 |volume=74 |issue=12 |pages=1243–1250
 |date=2003
 |pmid=14692466|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8945687
}}</ref>