Many hospitals and health systems have begun cutting the use of certain inhaled anesthetics due to their greenhouse gas emissions, and a teaching hospital in Europe recently found a potential ...
According to Health Care Without Harm’s 2019 Climate Footprint report, healthcare accounts for 8.5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and 4.4% globally. The operating room is a major point of emissions ...
An analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from volatile anesthetic agents across 41 countries showed that Western nations have achieved significant reductions, but Asian countries continue to increase ...
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Anesthesia has a greenhouse gas problem. A few tweaks could give the climate some breathing room
Reducing the use of climate-warming inhaled gases can cut emissions associated with surgical anesthesia in half, according to ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors in San Francisco are at the forefront of a movement to replace the drugs used for general anesthesia, which have been determined to be contributing to our climate change ...
Penn Medicine recently announced that it is phasing out desflurane, a potent greenhouse gas used in anesthesia. Desflurane has been a preferred anesthetic gas because it allows patients to recover ...
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