Hospitals in Scotland will no longer use desflurane for surgery - which has a global warming potential 2500 times higher than carbon dioxide.
Scots hospitals will no longer use desflurane, used as an anaesthetic during surgery, which it’s hoped will save emissions equivalent to powering 1700 homes a year.
It’s the first step in NHS Scotland's National Green Theatres Programme, set to fully launch later in the spring, aimed at making hospital operating theatres more eco-friendly. It comes as many hospitals in Scotland, England and Wales were already seeking to phase out desflurane, replacing it with gases not as planet-warming such as sevoflurane, or using alternative anaesthetics and more efficient equipment.
“NHS Scotland has assigned an ambitious target to be net-zero for anaesthetic gases by 2027, and removal of desflurane is just the first step towards this.
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