Scotland is the first country to ban desflurane

The environmental impact of anaesthesia is one of the hottest topics in modern anaesthetic practice. All inhalational anaesthetic agents are damaging to the environment, but by far the most harmful is desflurane, with an effect on global warming over 2,500 times that of carbon dioxide.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to completely ban the use of desflurane in its hospitals, in favour of less environmentally damaging agents such as sevoflurane or total intravenous anaesthesia.

Read the BBC article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64347191