Balancing Patient Needs With Environmental Impacts for Best Practices in General Anesthesia: Narrative Review and Clinical Perspective

M Jabaudon, B Vallabh, HP Bacher, R Badenes… - … Critical Care & Pain …, 2024 - Elsevier
Discussions of the environmental impacts of general anesthetics have focused on
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from inhaled agents, with those of total intravenous …

QGIS-based modeling and analysis of urban dynamics affecting land surface temperature towards climate hazards in coastal zones of Portugal

O Isinkaralar - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
Climate risk creates considerable concern due to the density of natural and socio-economic
assets in coastal areas. Monitoring land use/cover changes, detecting population growth …

The Color of Climate Change: Transparency Over the Burden From Anesthesia

ME Slingo, JM Slingo - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2024 - journals.lww.com
In their recent article, Baker et al 1 explore the inter-section of ethnic inequalities in health
care with climate change. They highlight an issue of great importance––that disparities exist …

The effects of desflurane withdrawal from the hospital: a call for a national ban of desflurane

D Bracco, C Bozzer - Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d' …, 2024 - Springer
To the Editor, There is worldwide recognition that volatile anesthetics have significant global
warming potential (GWP) and contribute to anthropogenic climate changes. 1 Although GWP …

[引用][C] Sustainability is a core outcome: filling research gaps in sustainable peri‐operative care

C Shelton, S Lentzos - Anaesthesia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As we write this editorial in early December 2023, the 28th United Nations (UN) Climate
Change Conference (COP28), is underway. In the run-up to this event, the UN published its …

[引用][C] Desflurane decommissioning: more than meets the eye

SR Moonesinghe - Anaesthesia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In April 2024, NHS England will finalise the decommissioning of the volatile anaesthetic
agent desflurane. The stance we hope will be adopted in England follows the example set …

[引用][C] Misconceptions about sustainable anaesthesia

K Kanal, L Fang - Anaesthesia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental sustainability is a concept encountered increasingly in healthcare, with a
huge variety of ways to define it. The United Nations defines the core principle of …

[引用][C] The science of climate change and the effect of anaesthetic gas emissions. Useful metrics for ethical decision making

A Kalmar, A Teunkens, S Rex - Anaesthesia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We support the call by Slingo and Slingo for anaesthetists to adopt a sustainability
framework informed by climate science, which urgently stresses the need to reduce our …

[引用][C] The science of climate change and the effect of anaesthetic gas emissions

A Grant - Anaesthesia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
I must commend Slingo and Slingo for writing such an interesting and accessible article on
the science of climate change [1]. While I will not question the hard scientific facts, I intend to …

[引用][C] Driving down the carbon cost of peri‐operative care: old controversies, new topics, fresh perspectives and the future

M Charlesworth, H Laycock - Anaesthesia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We are running out of time to ensure we and our children have a liveable future [1] and the
threat is now very real [2]. The argument that climate change might happen has …