""At our flagship hospital, it was the equivalent of [taking] 360 cars off the road," Sherman said. "There are 6,000 hospitals in the United States.""
""Instead of desflurane, the Yale New Haven Health System now relies primarily on sevoflurane, an anesthetic that is 10 times less potent as a greenhouse gas and approximately half as expensive. The health care system saved $1.2 million annually on anesthesia medications after making the switch, Sherman said.""
""If we can deliver the same safe and effective anesthesia using less greenhouse gases, that's just on the face of it, better, and something we should do," Dutton said."
Yale New Haven Health System eliminated desflurane in 2013, reducing anesthesia-related greenhouse impact comparable to removing 360 cars from the road at its flagship hospital. The system switched to sevoflurane, which is about ten times less potent as a greenhouse gas and roughly half the cost, producing $1.2 million in annual anesthesia medication savings. Other major health systems have since reduced or eliminated desflurane. US Anesthesia Partners reports an approximate 90% reduction in anesthesia-related greenhouse emissions since 2017 as desflurane use dropped from around half of procedures to under 1%. Providers increasingly adopt low-flow anesthesia and cut nitrous oxide use.
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