Persistent use of nitrous oxide for anaesthesia in European hospitals despite its harmfulness to the climate - how emission taxation can achieve the coupling of cost-effectiveness and climate protection: observational study

• Main Authors: Ferdinand Lehmann (Author), Christian M Schulz (Author), Dominik Leicht (Author), Scott Brady (Author), Anna Fuhrmann (Author), Jens Prütting (Author), Max Georg Hügel (Author), Daniel Hörr (Author), Michael Sander (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health care has the intrinsic obligation to preserve health. This concept is also applicable to planetary health. Nitrous oxide (N2O) lacks clinical indications in modern anaesthesia, while it is a high-potential greenhouse gas. Its seemingly low cost contrasts with the consequen...