There is increasing concern within the health-care community about the role care delivery
plays in environmental degradation, sparking research into how to reduce pollution from …

Climate change is a real and accelerating existential danger. Urgent action is required to
halt its progression, and everyone can contribute. Pollution mitigation represents an …

Modern anaesthetic gases include the hydrofluorocarbons sevoflurane and desflurane, the
chlorofluorocarbon isoflurane, and nitrous oxide. Following use, anaesthetic gases are …

BACKGROUND: Anesthesiologists must consider the entire life cycle of drugs in order to
include environmental impacts into clinical decisions. In the present study we used life cycle …

BACKGROUND: Inhaled anesthetics are recognized greenhouse gases. Calculating their
relative impact during common clinical usage will allow comparison to each other and to …

With an estimated worldwide volume of 266 million surgeries in 2015, the call for general
inhalation anesthesia is considerable. However, widely used volatile anesthetics such as N …

Inhaled anesthetics have been in clinical use for over 150 years and are still commonly used
in daily practice. The initial view of inhaled anesthetics as indispensable for general …

Climate change has been described as the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.
As a result, governments around the world are committing to legislative change in order to …

Climate change affects human health in a myriad of ways, requiring reassessment of the
nature of scaling up care delivery and the effect that care delivery has on the environment. 5 …

Objectives Metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) contain propellants which are potent greenhouse
gases. Many agencies propose a switch to alternative, low global warming potential (GWP) …