The detrimental health effects of climate change continue to increase. Although health
systems respond to this disease burden, healthcare itself pollutes the atmosphere, land, and …

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 …

Background Climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public
health. In response, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been working since …

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 …

Abstract The UK National Health Service (NHS) aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions
by 2050. One measure for reaching this target outlined in the NHS long-term plan (2019) is …

Inhalation anesthetics are used widely for the anesthetic management of animals. They are
unique among anesthetic drugs because they are administered, and in large part removed …

DISCUSSION Radiative forcing is a measure of the influence a factor has in altering the
balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the Earth-atmosphere system, often stated …

Modern halogenated inhalation anesthetics undergo little metabolization during clinical
application and evaporate almost completely to the atmosphere. Based on their first …

Trifluoroacetate (TFA) is a persistent perfluorinated alkanoic acid anion that has many
anthropogenic sources, with fluorocarbon refrigerants being a major one. After an initial …

The amended and adjusted Montreal Protocol has continued to reduce emissions and
atmospheric abundances of most controlled ozone-depleting substances. By 2012, the total …