Anesthesia is a vital element of many medical procedures, but a recent study published in the Geophysical Research Letters suggests a negative consequence of anesthesia, according to a report by The ...

Reducing the use of climate-warming inhaled gases can cut emissions associated with surgical anesthesia in half, according to a new analysis. What’s more, the study found no impact on patient ...

So we compare greenhouse gases using a metric called global warming potential 100, which is the ability of a gas to warm the planet over a 100-year time horizon. And the anesthesia gases that we use ...

To deliver anesthesia, you need medical-grade oxygen to carry the anesthetic vapor into the lungs. That means pure oxygen; the air we breathe on a regular basis is only about 21 percent oxygen.

UCSF doctors lead way in eliminating climate-harmful anesthesia gas use 04:09. SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors in San Francisco are at the forefront of a movement to replace the drugs used for general ...

An anesthetic machine is a form of medical equipment that mixes gases in order to transfer them to the patient’s respiratory system and maintain anesthesia. These devices’ primary functions are to ...