Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13123 East 16th Avenue B 090, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Anesthesiol Clin. 2020 Sep;38(3):679-692. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2020.06.006.
Climate change will be the defining health crisis of the twenty-first century, and environmental health is directly linked with human health. The health sector should lead the sustainability effort by greening itself and reducing its ecological footprint to improve global health and the health of the planet. Anesthesiology has an oversized role in production of greenhouse gases and waste, and thus its impact on affecting change is also oversized. Decreasing the waste of volatile anesthetic agents, medications, and anesthesia equipment is a powerful start to the many sustainability changes needed in health care.
气候变化将成为 21 世纪的决定性健康危机，而环境卫生与人类健康直接相关。卫生部门应通过自身的绿化和减少生态足迹来引领可持续发展努力，以改善全球健康和地球健康。麻醉学在温室气体和废物的产生方面扮演着重要的角色，因此其对环境变化的影响也很大。减少挥发性麻醉剂、药物和麻醉设备的浪费是医疗保健中许多可持续发展变革的有力起点。
