• Br J Anaesth · Dec 2024

    Editorial Review

    Towards sustainability of volatile anaesthetics: capture and beyond.

    • Lukas M Müller-Wirtz, Thomas Volk, and Andreas Meiser.
    • Outcomes Research Consortium, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Saarland University Medical Centre and Saarland University Faculty of Medicine, Homburg, Saarland, Germany; Department of Anaesthesiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany. Electronic address: lukas@muellerwirtz.de.
    • Br J Anaesth. 2024 Dec 1; 133 (6): 136313661363-1366.

    AbstractThe first measures to reduce the environmental harm from volatile anaesthetics are implementation of minimal fresh gas flow strategies and avoidance of desflurane. Although anaesthetic waste gas capture systems generally exert high capturing efficiencies, only about half of volatile anaesthetics used in the operating room are accessible for capture. Industry-sponsored reports promise a reduction of the global warming potential by both incineration and recycling of captured volatile anaesthetics. However, independent high-quality peer-reviewed studies are needed to confirm these findings.Copyright © 2024 British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…