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 ...

The Quebec health network ought to stop using the gas desflurane for general surgical anesthesia, a government agency has suggested, because of its large carbon footprint. General anesthesia consists ...

CITYWIDE — AN IMPROVED OPTIMIZED USE OF ANESTHETIC GASES, such as nitrous oxide, has helped the city’s public health system achieve a 52% annual reduction in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) emissions ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first software to semiautomate anesthesia delivery during surgery. The software, End-tidal (Et) Control, works with General Electric's (GE's) ...

Patients say it feels like being trapped in a corpse: They awake during surgery, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain. Some ...

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center found that by adding ethyl nitrite gas to the carbon dioxide used to inflate the surgical area during laparoscopy, blood flow and organ function was ...