Current guidelines may be inadequate to prepare newer generation anesthesia workstations, which require more time for purging anesthetic gases, autoclaving or replacement of parts, as well as ...
Many hospitals and health systems have begun cutting the use of certain inhaled anesthetics due to their greenhouse gas emissions, and a teaching hospital in Europe recently found a potential ...
John Di Capua, MD, is deputy CEO and chief medical officer of North American Partners in Anesthesia Corp.; vice president of anesthesia services of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; and ...
Dr. Sam Smith was on call at a Santa Barbara hospital in January 2018 when mudslides killed 23 people. Over the next few years, Smith, an anesthesiologist, helped treat patients suffering injuries or ...
Reducing the use of climate-warming inhaled gases can cut emissions associated with surgical anesthesia in half, according to ...
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 ...