Available volatile anaesthetics are safe and efficacious; however, their varying
pharmacology provides small but potentially clinically important differences. Desflurane is …

Sustainability interventions were implemented at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
(RBWH) following identification of inhaled anaesthetic gases as a target for reducing …

Anesthesia medications comprise a significant proportion of hospital pharmacy budgets.
Average anesthesia-related cost reductions of US $13–30 per cases multiplied by 25 million …

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 …

Background The assessment of volatile agents' consumption can be performed by weighing
vapourisers before and after use. This method is technically demanding and unavailable for …

Emerging technologies that reduce the economic and environmental costs of anaesthesia
have had limited assessment. We hypothesised that automated control of end-tidal gases, a …

Background: Reduced consumption of inhalation anesthetics can be safely achieved by
reducing excess fresh gas flow (FGF). In this study the authors describe the use of a realtime …

“The earth is in the midst of an environmental crisis, driven largely by human activity. In our
work and personal lives, we all bear responsibility for this, and for the harm it causes to …

Strategies to reduce the adverse environmental costs of anaesthesia include choice of agent
and fresh gas flows. The current preferences of Australian and New Zealand anaesthetists …

As inhaled anesthetics are widely used, medical staff have inevitably suffered from exposure
to anesthetic waste gases (WAGs). Whether chronic exposure to WAGs has an impact on the …