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 …

Background Infection prevention measures are widely used in operating rooms (ORs).
However, the extent to which they are at odds with ambitions to reduce the health sector's …

Objective To provide guidelines for reducing the environmental impact of general
anaesthesia. Design A committee of ten experts from SFAR and SF2H and SFPC learned …

Five billion people lack access to surgical care worldwide; climate change is the biggest
threat to human health in the 21st century. This review studies how climate change could be …

A transition toward environmentally conscious business practices is underway in many
sectors. For healthcare, the topic is both concerning and tragically ironic as hospitals have …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of patients in ICUs leading
to a worldwide shortage of the intravenous sedative agents obligating physicians to find …

Background Clinical activity accounts for 70–80% of the carbon footprint of healthcare. A
critical component of reducing emissions is shifting clinical behaviour towards reducing …

We present a narrative review of environmental sustainability aimed at perioperative
clinicians. The review will familiarize readers with the triple bottom line framework, which …

Objective: In France, healthcare facilities account for 7% of greenhouse gas emissions and
3.5% of total waste generation. Operating rooms generate 30% of hospital waste and hence …

In an era of electronics-driven healthcare, the disposability of many medical devices raises
environmental concerns. Transitioning these devices towards a circular economy, involving …