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 …

For several decades, anesthetic gases have greatly enhanced the comfort and outcome for
patients during surgery. The benefits of these agents have heavily outweighed the risks. In …

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 …

General anesthetics are administered to approximately 50 million patients each year in the
United States. Anesthetic vapors and gases are also widely used in dentists' offices …

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

All volatile anesthetic agents are fluorocarbons and variably potent greenhouse gases
(GHG). 1 As a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), isoflurane also has ozone depleting potential (as …

Anesthetic drugs have the potential to contribute to global warming. There is some debate
about the overall impact of anesthetic drugs relative to carbon dioxide, but there is no …

Long term occupational exposure to trace concentrations of volatile anaesthetics is thought
to have adverse effects on the health of exposed personnel. In contrast with halothane—an …

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 …