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ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2025

Assessing the environmental impact of propofol use in anaesthesia: a call for surveillance monitoring.

Pete Ford, Nick Aveyard, Kelly Thornber, Paul Southall, Charles Tyler

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Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Environmental impact of anesthetic gases.Medical gas research · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Pete FordNIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Sustainable Innovation, Royal Devon University Healthcare Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK; University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK. Electronic address: peteford@nhs.net.
Nick AveyardNIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Sustainable Innovation, Royal Devon University Healthcare Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK; University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK.
Kelly ThornberBiosciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Paul SouthallThe Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK; Department of Anaesthesia, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcester, UK.
Charles TylerBiosciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

bioaccumulationecosystemenvironmentpropofolsurveillance monitoringsustainabilitywastewater

Identifiers

PMID40348678
PMCPMC12597459

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