Climate change and greenhouse gas typically bring to mind gridlock traffic, coal plants, and Big Oil, but a new study is pointing a finger at the carbon footprint of surgical procedures, including ...

Desflurane, which was once favored by physicians because it leaves the body quickly, can hang in the atmosphere for 14 years, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Sevoflurane could now provide a ...

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 ...

The use of desflurane, a common anesthetic, has been on the decline in recent years as healthcare institutions have begun to sunset it in response to environmental concerns, Inside Climate News ...

According to Inside Climate News, desflurane is a common anesthetic but also a significant emitter of carbon dioxide. Hospitals have stopped using it. Douglas A. McIntyre, Editor-In-Chief of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors in San Francisco are at the forefront of a movement to replace the drugs used for general anesthesia, which have been determined to be contributing to our climate change ...

Review the side-effects of Desflurane as documented in medical literature. The term "side effects" refers to unintended effects that can occur as a result of taking the medication. In majority of the ...

Purpose: Results of published, randomized controlled trials comparing sevoflurane and desflurane were pooled to measure differences in times until patients obeyed commands, were extubated, were ...

Mortality was not reported in any of the papers on surgical procedures in people with a BMI of at least 30 kg/m 2 included in the evidence review. Aftab et al. (2019a) found no significant difference ...

Before conducting this meta-analysis, we expected that any differences in recovery times for sevoflurane- or desflurane-treated patients would be quite small. However, since every patient undergoing ...

No evidence was identified to suggest that using desflurane instead of other general anaesthetic agents for maintenance of anaesthesia is associated with improved clinical or cost outcomes in people ...