Should Anesthetics with Enormous Global Warming Potentials be Banned?
Boston University Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MASince the first public use of anesthesia, on October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, advances in pharmacology have given anesthesiologists an ever-widening array of chemical tools. The most recent of these are fluorinated ethers, so-called F-gases, a prominent example being desflurane (C3H2F6O). Desflurane is a specialty anesthetic agent. It is estimated that it is […]
