Greening the operating room

A Cachefo-Pereira, EP Souza - Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Since Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first estimated the extent of warming from
widespread coal burning in 1896, climatologist Wallace Broecker coined the term “global …

Sustainability in the operating room: reducing our impact on the planet

D Gordon - Anesthesiology clinics, 2020 - anesthesiology.theclinics.com
Climate change will be the defining health crisis of the twenty-first century and represents
the greatest threat to global health. 1 Although severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[PDF][PDF] Moving Towards Green Anaesthesia—Strategies for Environmental Sustainability

S Lam, D Wong - World Federation of societies of …, 2023 - resources.wfsahq.org
Climate change and global warming have been accelerating due to human activities. The
majority of the warming has occurred in the past 40 years, with the 7 most recent years being …

Environmental footprint of anesthesia: More than inhaled anesthetics!

MMRF Struys, MJ Eckelman - Anesthesiology, 2021 - pubs.asahq.org
Climate change is an increasingly apparent global reality. According to the new United
Nations (New York, New York) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report …

Greener 'Gassers': key challenges in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine related to the evolving climate crisis

DV Atraszkiewicz - European Journal of Anaesthesiology| EJA, 2023 - journals.lww.com
The UK government's sixth Carbon Budget set targets in law to reduce carbon dioxide (CO
2) emissions down to net-zero by 2050. 1 The NHS is estimated to contribute 4% of the UK's …

[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] What can anaesthetists do to help combat the global climate emergency?

C Allen, AF Smith, MH Nathanson - Anaesthesia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its sixth assessment
report in 2021 [1]. The report offers a stark and alarming warning that our climate is changing …

[HTML][HTML] The environmental responsibility of modern anesthesiology and perioperative care

JA Calvache - Colombian Journal of Anestesiology, 2024 - scielo.org.co
Climate change is widely recognized as a major threat to global health in the 21st Century.
Compared to the pre-industrial era, the average temperature of our planet is 1.1 oC higher 1 …

[PDF][PDF] Sustainability in Anaesthesiology: A Swiss Perspective

S Meyera, X Souvatzisb, L Marinc - Anaesthesia, 2024 - ssapm.ch
To fight climate change, the Paris Agreement was negotiated during the United Nations
Climate Change Conference 2015. Switzerland has ratified the Paris Agreement in 2017. Its …

Green anesthesia” in the “Green Journal

SKW Schwarz - Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d' …, 2023 - Springer
I frequently reflect on the somewhat unique principal colour of the Journal. Canada's
national colours are, of course, red and white—as also reflected in the crest of the Canadian …