SAN FRANCISCO -- Doctors in San Francisco are at the forefront of a movement to replace the drugs used for general anesthesia, which have been determined to be contributing to our climate change ...

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

Washington state lawmakers are considering allocating $840,000 to the state’s Department of Ecology to study the impact of anesthesia gas on the environment. The department would be required to ...

Penn Medicine recently announced that it is phasing out desflurane, a potent greenhouse gas used in anesthesia. Desflurane has been a preferred anesthetic gas because it allows patients to recover ...

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health has largely phased out its use of desflurane in anesthesia, according to a July 25 WHRO News report. Desflurane is a greenhouse gas used for anesthesia. It became ...