ArticleBMJ open quality2022
Greenhouse gas reduction in anaesthesia practice: a departmental environmental strategy.
Article in BMJ open quality, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07508865 (Sustainable Anesthesia in Myocardial Revascularization Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Sustainable Anesthesia in Myocardial Revascularization Surgery: a Non-randomized Interventional Study
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Australian Research on Climate Change and Health Interventions: A Systematic Mapping Review.The Medical journal of Australia · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of departmental green anaesthesia interventions on carbon dioxide equivalent emissions: a systematic review.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Pooled it
- Decarbonizing surgical care: a qualitative systematic review guided by the Congruence Model.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- Carbon emissions and waste consumption of infant inguinal hernia repair: a prospective analysis.Pediatric surgery international · 2026Observational
- Impact of minimal flow anaesthesia on anaesthetic gas consumption and carbon emission - A prospective observational study.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2026Article
- Contribution of hospitals and clinical services to global warming: a scoping systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Reducing use of desflurane in the anaesthetic department: A controlled interrupted time series analysis.Anaesthesia and intensive care · 2026Article
- Greenhouse gas emissions associated with anaesthetic gases in Australia, 2002-2022: a retrospective descriptive analysis.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025Article
- Priority Setting in the Context of Planetary Healthcare.Applied health economics and health policy · 2025Review
- Green Surgery and Sustainability in Orthopaedic Operating Rooms: A Comprehensive Review of Environmental Initiatives.Cureus · 2025Review
- Costs and Arising Work Times of Volatile Short-Term Sedation in Intensive Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Challenges in achieving more sustainable anaesthesia practices: a narrative review of waste reduction.BJA open · 2025Review
- Sustainability in the operating room: a cross-sectional survey of nurse anaesthetists' and operating room nurses' views and practice.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Postoperative remote first care for financially and environmentally sustainable healthcare.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Environmental and patient safety outcomes of a health-system Green Anesthesia Initiative (GAIA): a retrospective observational cohort study.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2025Observational
- A Systematic Review of Factors Influencing the Adoption of Green Practices Within Healthcare Centers to Mitigate Climate Change.Environmental health insights · 2025Review
- The effects of desflurane withdrawal from the hospital: a call for a national ban of desflurane.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Article
- Contributions of Medical Greenhouse Gases to Climate Change and Their Possible Alternatives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Scoping review for the SAGES EAES joint collaborative on sustainability in surgical practice.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in the Operating Room: A Scoping Review.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sustainability interventions were implemented at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) following identification of inhaled anaesthetic gases as a target for reducing medical carbon emissions. This quality improvement study assessed and evaluated the impact of sustainability interventions on the environmental and financial cost of inhaled anaesthetic gas use in order to guide future initiatives and research in reducing carbon emissions from healthcare practice.Ethical exemption was granted from the RBWH Research Ethics Committee (EX/2021/QRBW/76078). Usage (bottles) and expenditure for desflurane and sevoflurane from January 2016 to December 2021 were obtained. Global warming potential and carbon dioxide equivalent (CO
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