Assessing the potential climate impact of anaesthetic gases

MPS Andersen, OJ Nielsen… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
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 …

Inhaled anesthetics: environmental role, occupational risk, and clinical use

M Gaya da Costa, AF Kalmar, MMRF Struys - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Guidelines for reducing the environmental impact of general anaesthesia

JC Pauchard, EM Hafiani, S Pons, L Bonnet… - … Critical Care & Pain …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Building sustainable and resilient surgical systems: a narrative review of opportunities to integrate climate change into national surgical planning in the Western …

RX Qin, L Velin, EF Yates, O El Omrani… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
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 …

The anesthesiologist and global climate change: an ethical obligation to act

GA Van Norman, S Jackson - Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The anesthesiologist and global climate change: an ethical o... : Current Opinion in
Anesthesiology The anesthesiologist and global climate change: an ethical obligation to act …

European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care consensus document on sustainability: 4 scopes to achieve a more sustainable practice

P Gonzalez-Pizarro, L Brazzi, S Koch… - European Journal of …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Climate change is a defining issue for our generation. The carbon footprint of clinical
practice accounts for 4.7% of European greenhouse gas emissions, with the European …

Towards zero carbon healthcare: anaesthesia

CL Shelton, R Knagg, RV Sondekoppam, F McGain - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Case 1—A 30 year old woman attends the obstetric anaesthetic clinic at 36 weeks'
gestation. This is her first pregnancy. The baby was in the breech position, and, after an …

The impact of sevoflurane anesthesia on postoperative renal function: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials

RV Sondekoppam, KH Narsingani… - Canadian Journal …, 2020 - search.proquest.com
Purpose Renal damage secondary to fluoride ions and compound A (CpdA) after
sevoflurane anesthesia remains unclear. For safety reasons, some countries still …

Desflurane in modern anaesthetic practice: walking on thin ice (caps)?

CL Shelton, R Sutton, SM White - British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2020 - bjanaesthesia.org
Conclusions High-quality, double-blind RCTs, such as the PREVENTT trial, are the highest
standard for determining effectiveness of various medical and surgical interventions and can …

Desflurane should des-appear: global and financial rationale

MJ Meyer - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Desflurane Should Des-appear recently published retrospective study analyzing volatile
anesthetics found a higher incidence of postoperative delirium in patients who received …