Dr. Peggy Allen is a pediatric anesthesiologist and the anesthesiology sustainability program director at Akron Children's Hospital. The hospital has reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Electronic Medical ...
For decades, hospitals have relied on desflurane, a popular anesthetic, to put patients to sleep on the operating table. But the chemical is a potent greenhouse gas, so regulators, health systems and ...
Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...