Did you also know that climate changes caused my spilt milk this morning? It really is something to behold. Everything causes climate change and climate change is to blame for everything that goes wrong.
Oh, and I can’t wait to see how much of our taxpayer money the Biden clown show paid to someone to study the impact that anesthesia has on the “climate.” 🤣🤦🏻♂️
Thank you for this article. I have been an anesthesiologist for 30 years. Except for the few of us fighting it with everything we have, medicine has gone totally woke. It starts with the medical schools, teaching medical marxism, just as bad as any undergraduate university. DEI does not improve your medical care, as it does not improve safety while flying in an airplane. Looking at the effect of waste anesthetic gases on climate is a demonic virtue signal at best. Instead of paying attention to care of your patient, operating room efficiency, provider's mental health, you should instead worry about scavenged waste anesthetic gases hitting the air. Go F yourself, you woke marxist medical bastards. Signed, a physician that has enough brains to keep the eye on the ball. Go talk to china or India if you are so concerned about man made effects on the environment. They are responsible for basically all of it.
Hello Dave, I am honored to have a seasoned health practitioner like yourself comment in my little zone here. I have close friends in the health industry who are frustrated as well as it inhibits their ability to maximize efficiency and support their patients, as you allude to.
As a chemist who worked with and synthesized fluorine containing compounds, it always amazed me how fluorine can impart very positive unique properties in materials that are life saving in many cases. In addition to anesthesia gases, many drugs and antibiotics contain fluorine atoms which can impart dramatically greater activity and bioavailability.
Please stay in touch and your comments are appreciated.
All should be thankful for vaporized anesthetics. Low air oxygen/flows will do the same job anesthetizing while using less of the vaporized gas. Providers do that. This saves the hospital a tiny little bit of money, with as you describe negligible effects on environment. To minimize anesthetic gas waste, intravenous(IV) anesthesia can be used which involves infusing anesthetics through plastic syringes via an IV. But then, oh gee, you have more plastic waste. Oh dear. Best bet for those concerned about this is not to have surgery. Then you will produce no waste. Or ,as you mentioned, whiskey and a bullet.
Good common sense points. Most people don't realize that they wouldn't be alive if it were not for petroleum, especially in terms of the medical industry.
Highly purified anesthesia gases must have glorious profit margins in the consumables space I imagine.
Back in the day, when I was doing semiconductors, we captured the nasties, including NF3, and fed them into burn boxes to incinerate. Perhaps that could be done in large surgery centers and would make Linde and Air Products happy vs. a condense and recycling scheme $$.
Given your years in the business, at least you and me had a good run before woke DEI ESG garbage made things miserable.
Make sure you fart in a bag too
But what do you do with the bag?
Hazardous waste disposal
Numbers that small can only be found in models.
Did you also know that climate changes caused my spilt milk this morning? It really is something to behold. Everything causes climate change and climate change is to blame for everything that goes wrong.
Oh, and I can’t wait to see how much of our taxpayer money the Biden clown show paid to someone to study the impact that anesthesia has on the “climate.” 🤣🤦🏻♂️
I hear coffee causes warming now, so please forgo that cuppa ☕
Phew! Good thing I drink tea 🤣
Thank you for this article. I have been an anesthesiologist for 30 years. Except for the few of us fighting it with everything we have, medicine has gone totally woke. It starts with the medical schools, teaching medical marxism, just as bad as any undergraduate university. DEI does not improve your medical care, as it does not improve safety while flying in an airplane. Looking at the effect of waste anesthetic gases on climate is a demonic virtue signal at best. Instead of paying attention to care of your patient, operating room efficiency, provider's mental health, you should instead worry about scavenged waste anesthetic gases hitting the air. Go F yourself, you woke marxist medical bastards. Signed, a physician that has enough brains to keep the eye on the ball. Go talk to china or India if you are so concerned about man made effects on the environment. They are responsible for basically all of it.
Hello Dave, I am honored to have a seasoned health practitioner like yourself comment in my little zone here. I have close friends in the health industry who are frustrated as well as it inhibits their ability to maximize efficiency and support their patients, as you allude to.
As a chemist who worked with and synthesized fluorine containing compounds, it always amazed me how fluorine can impart very positive unique properties in materials that are life saving in many cases. In addition to anesthesia gases, many drugs and antibiotics contain fluorine atoms which can impart dramatically greater activity and bioavailability.
Please stay in touch and your comments are appreciated.
TC
All should be thankful for vaporized anesthetics. Low air oxygen/flows will do the same job anesthetizing while using less of the vaporized gas. Providers do that. This saves the hospital a tiny little bit of money, with as you describe negligible effects on environment. To minimize anesthetic gas waste, intravenous(IV) anesthesia can be used which involves infusing anesthetics through plastic syringes via an IV. But then, oh gee, you have more plastic waste. Oh dear. Best bet for those concerned about this is not to have surgery. Then you will produce no waste. Or ,as you mentioned, whiskey and a bullet.
Good common sense points. Most people don't realize that they wouldn't be alive if it were not for petroleum, especially in terms of the medical industry.
Highly purified anesthesia gases must have glorious profit margins in the consumables space I imagine.
Back in the day, when I was doing semiconductors, we captured the nasties, including NF3, and fed them into burn boxes to incinerate. Perhaps that could be done in large surgery centers and would make Linde and Air Products happy vs. a condense and recycling scheme $$.
Given your years in the business, at least you and me had a good run before woke DEI ESG garbage made things miserable.