Iatrogenic greenhouse gases: the role of anaesthetic agents

Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2016 Jan;77(1):19-23. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2016.77.1.19.

Abstract

The contribution of health-care activity to climate change is not negligible and is increasing. Anaesthetic greenhouse gases, in particular the fluranes, have a much more potent global warming capacity, volume for volume, than carbon dioxide, but their emissions remain completely unregulated.

MeSH terms

  • Anesthetics / chemistry*
  • Climate Change
  • Fluorocarbons / chemistry*
  • Gases / chemistry*
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Humans
  • Stratospheric Ozone / chemistry

Substances

  • Anesthetics
  • Fluorocarbons
  • Gases
  • Stratospheric Ozone