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Project SPRUCE: Saving Our Planet by Reducing Carbon Emissions, a Pediatric Anesthesia Sustainability Quality Improvement Initiative - PubMedProviding environmentally responsible anesthesia in a pediatric setting is a challenging but achievable goal, and it is imperative to help mitigate the impact of climate change. Large systems changes, such as eliminating desflurane, limiting access to nitrous oxide, and changing default anesthesia m …

It's time to stop using nitrous oxide for pediatric mask induction Background Mask induction of anesthesia for pediatric patients has included the use of nitrous oxide since the inception of pediatric anesthesia. However, the use of nitrous oxide precludes adequate...

Jodi D. Sherman; It's Time Hospitals Abandon Nitrous Oxide Pipes. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:33 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001006828.24359.cd

Nitrous oxide leak mitigation

Statement on Deactivating Central Piped Nitrous Oxide to Mitigate Avoidable Health Care Pollution

Mitigating the systemic loss of nitrous oxide: a narrative review and data-driven practice analysisGiven the negative health impacts of climate change, clinicians have a fundamental responsibility to take an active role in mitigating the environment…

"Decommission old, and avoid new construction of, N2O central piping systems, and substitute portable tanks that remain closed between uses" - Inhaled anaesthesia and analgesia contribute to climate change | The BMJ

Discrepancy between procurement and clinical use of nitrous oxide: waste not, want not - ScienceDirect

Nitrous-Oxide-More-Harm-Than-Good.pdf (pedsanesthesia.org)

Cascadia Nitrous Oxide Collaborative

webinar & slides

Online resources

Greening the Operating Room (ASA)

anesthetic_gas_how-to.pdf (practicegreenhealth.org)

SPA One-pager on Desflurane

Eliminiating-Desflurane.pdf (pedsanesthesia.org)

Environmental Sustainability

Low Flow Anesthesia

Free Low-flow course (link to ASA site to log in)

Low-Flow-Anesthesia-in-Pediatric-Patients.pdf (pedsanesthesia.org)

Patient Safety and Low-Flow Anesthesia - Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (apsf.org)

Off-Label Low-Flow Sevoflurane: Regulatory Red Herring or Liability Landmine? - Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (apsf.org)

Letter from Tabby Cline on her journey away from Nitrous Oxide

My Transition From Nitrous

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