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.

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 ...

Reducing the use of climate-warming inhaled gases can cut emissions associated with surgical anesthesia in half, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new brain-machine interface could replace human administration of anesthetics to patients in a medically induced coma. IE 11 is not supported.