Assessing the impact on global climate from general anesthetic gases

Mads P. Sulbæk Andersen; Ole John Nielsen; Timothy J. Wallington; Boris Karpichev; Stanley P. Sander

doi:10.1213/ane.0b013e31824d6150

Assessing the impact on global climate from general anesthetic gases

Mads P. Sulbæk Andersen, Ole John Nielsen, Timothy J. Wallington, Boris Karpichev, Stanley P. Sander

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

Although present in the atmosphere with a combined concentration approximately 100,000 times lower than carbon dioxide (i.e., the principal anthropogenic driver of climate change), halogenated organic compounds are responsible for a warming effect of approximately 10% to 15% of the total anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate, as measured relative to the start of the industrial era (approximately 1750). The family of anesthetic gases includes several halogenated organic compounds that are strong greenhouse gases. In this short report, we provide an overview of the state of knowledge regarding the impact of anesthetic gas release on the environment, with particular focus on its contribution to the radiative forcing of climate change.

Original language	English
Journal	Anesthesia and Analgesia
Volume	114
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	1081-1085
Number of pages	5
ISSN	0003-2999
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0b013e31824d6150
Publication status	Published - May 2012

Keywords

Air Pollution
Algorithms
Anesthetics, Inhalation
Atmosphere
Climate Change
Global Warming
Greenhouse Effect
Hydrocarbons, Halogenated
Spectrophotometry, Infrared

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