Approximately 3% of overall healthcare carbon emissions come from inhaled agents used during anesthesia. A new study from Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor has revealed that switching to less-polluting ...

The head tilts and forceful eyelid yanks that come with using eye drops is pretty annoying enough… but imagine having to do all that right repeatedly after eye surgery. So scientists have developed ...

How can greener anesthesia help both patients and the environment? This is what a recent study published in The Lancer Planetary Health hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of ...

And for those applying eye drops after laser eye surgery--when the eyes are especially tender--they can be a real pain. Which is why researchers at the University of Florida are working to design ...

A systemwide initiative to reduce anesthesia-caused greenhouse gas emissions can succeed without compromising patient safety, according to researchers at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine. In March ...

Dr. Brian Chesebro (right), in Portland, Ore., has calculated that by simply using the anesthesia gas sevoflurane in most surgeries, instead of the similar gas desflurane, he can significantly cut the ...

Dr. Wolf Stapelfeldt is proud of all those little green squares that pop up on screen whenever he shows off the software that he helped create for the Cleveland Clinic. Each square represents a ...

It's early morning in an operating theater at Providence Hospital in Portland, Ore. A middle-aged woman lies on the operating table, wrapped in blankets. Surgeons are about to cut out a cancerous ...