The Impact of Anesthesia on Global Warming and the Reality of Sustainable Anesthesia

OpenAlex İngilizce

Due to changes in air pollution, rising temperatures, flooding, drought, and the development of vector-borne diseases, anthropogenic climate change is one of the most serious threats to human health in the twenty-first century.Hospital healthcare services contribute to environmental pollution by emitting carbondioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are responsible for a significant amount of climate change.Operating rooms are the most highly resource-intensive component of a hospital, using significant quantities of waste as well as three to six times the amount of electricity as the rest of the facility.The goal of this review is to evaluate the environmental implications of inhalation and intravenous anesthetics, as well as waste and energy consumption in the operating room, and to provide practical recommendations for reducing these impacts.