About 3% of greenhouse gas emissions in the health care system come from anesthesia—specifically, inhaled gases such as nitrous oxide (which has a warming effect 270 times more potent than ...

Anesthesia’s next greenhouse gas breakthrough Many hospitals and health systems have begun cutting the use of certain inhaled anesthetics due to their greenhouse gas emissions, and a teaching hospital ...

The results of the current study show that global greenhouse gas emissions from anesthetic gases have decreased by 27% over the last decade to about 2 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

AN IMPROVED OPTIMIZED USE OF ANESTHETIC GASES, such as nitrous oxide, has helped the city’s public health system achieve an annual reduction.

Science This Anesthesia Gas Could Be the Next Big Alzheimer’s Treatment New research suggests that inhaled xenon gas can help protect the brains of those with Alzheimer's disease.