• Anesthesia and analgesia · Jun 2019

    Provider Education and Vaporizer Labeling Lead to Reduced Anesthetic Agent Purchasing With Cost Savings and Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

    • Karin L Zuegge, Shannon K Bunsen, Lana M Volz, Ashley K Stromich, Russel C Ward, Andrew R King, Steven A Sobeck, Rachel E Wood, Brooke E Schliewe, Ronald P Steiner, and Deborah A Rusy.
    • From the Department of Anesthesiology.
    • Anesth. Analg. 2019 Jun 1; 128 (6): e97e99e97-e99.

    AbstractAnesthetic agents are known greenhouse gases with hundreds to thousands of times the global warming impact compared with carbon dioxide. We sought to mitigate the negative environmental and financial impacts of our practice in the perioperative setting through multidisciplinary staff engagement and provider education on flow rate reduction and volatile agent choice. These efforts led to a 64% per case reduction in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (163 kg in Fiscal Year 2012, compared with 58 kg in Fiscal Year 2015), as well as a cost savings estimate of $25,000 per month.

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