Persistent use of nitrous oxide for anaesthesia in European hospitals despite its harmfulness to the climate - how emission taxation can achieve the coupling of cost-effectiveness and climate protection: observational study.

Background: Health care has the intrinsic obligation to preserve health. This concept is also applicable to planetary health. Nitrous oxide (NO) lacks clinical indications in modern anaesthesia, while it is a high-potential greenhouse gas.

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In times of an unprecedented energy crisis, sustainability is becoming increasingly important. This development does not stop at medicine and especially at the operating room, where a considerable amount of greenhouse gases is produced. Due to this development, the question arises whether sterility, safety and service can be reconciled with a resource-saving use of medical devices.

Mitigation of climate change in health care: A survey for the evaluation of providers' attitudes and knowledge, and their view on their organization's readiness for change.

Background: Climate change is the 21 century's greatest threat to health. Anaesthesia is responsible for high levels of waste production, significant greenhouse gas emissions and extensive energy consumption. Our aim was to design an instrument to assess attitudes and knowledge among anaesthetists as well as their organisation's readiness for change regarding climate action.