Brian Chesebro, MD, an anesthesiologist and physician at Providence Portland (Ore.) Medical Center, shared research with Missoula Anesthesiology on the effect costly anesthesia gases can have on the ...

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health has largely phased out its use of desflurane in anesthesia, according to a July 25 WHRO News report. Desflurane is a greenhouse gas used for anesthesia. It became ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carrying out invasive procedures in animals requires the administration of anesthesia. Xenon gas offers advantages as an anesthetic agent compared with other agents, such as its protection of the ...

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Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital stopped using two harmful anesthesia gasses last year and are now working to reduce the use of two others by 75%, according to a May 21 news release ...

A growing number of health systems are moving to end the use of desflurane — a common anesthesia gas that lingers in the atmosphere for more than a decade. Already, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ...

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 ...

The word "surgery" often leads to a discussion about other things, including the type of anesthesia that will be used during a procedure. The truth is, there are many different types of anesthesia ...