According to Health Care Without Harm’s 2019 Climate Footprint report, healthcare accounts for 8.5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and 4.4% globally. The operating room is a major point of emissions ...

Washington state lawmakers are considering allocating $840,000 to the state’s Department of Ecology to study the impact of anesthesia gas on the environment. The department would be required to ...

The next Alzheimer’s treatment could come from an unexpected place. In new research released this week, scientists have found evidence in mice that xenon gas might be able to help treat the ...

Surprisingly, a common anesthesia drug called desflurane is also a climate super-pollutant. In fact, in terms of its impact on warming the planet, the gas is several thousand times more potent than ...

CITYWIDE — AN IMPROVED OPTIMIZED USE OF ANESTHETIC GASES, such as nitrous oxide, has helped the city’s public health system achieve a 52% annual reduction in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) emissions ...

Penn Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recently announced their decision to phase out usage of desflurane in anesthesia due to its environmental impact. Credit: Mehak Dhaliwal Penn ...

An analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from volatile anesthetic agents across 41 countries showed that Western nations have achieved significant reductions, but Asian countries continue to increase ...

Teleflex has launched The Invisible Risk Campaign to educate anesthesiologists and clinicians on the dangers of waste anesthetic gas exposure in post-anesthesia care units, according to the Fort Mill ...

Dr. Elizabeth Hansen. Courtesy of Seattle Children’s. Did you know that some of the gases used in anesthesia are strong greenhouse gases? A few years ago, Seattle Children’s Hospital analyzed its ...

Limerick, Pa.-based Teleflex received FDA 510(k) clearance for its ISO-Gard Mask with CleanAir Technology, designed to reduce harmful anesthetic gases clinicians are exposed to. Patients recovering ...

The next Alzheimer’s treatment could come from an unexpected place. In new research released this week, scientists have found evidence in mice that xenon gas might be able to help treat the ...