Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t John C; Desflurane has a greenhouse gas potential 2500x greater than CO2. But “… ensuring patient safety remains at the heart of every clinical decision …”.
Scotland first to ban environmentally harmful anaesthetic
By Smitha Mundasad
Health reporterScotland has become the first country in the world to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment.
NHS data suggests the gas, used to keep people unconscious during surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide.
Banning it in Scotland – from its peak use in 2017 – would cut emissions equal to powering 1,700 homes a year.
UK hospitals have already cut down.
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Scottish Health and Social Care Secretary, Humza Yousaf, said: “Programmes like this are key to our transition to become a net-zero health service, whilst ensuring patient safety remains at the heart of every clinical decision.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64347191
What can I say – try not to get sick in Scotland.
According to Wikipedia, ” … It has the most rapid onset and offset of the volatile anesthetic drugs used for general anesthesia due to its low solubility in blood. …”. Given Desflurane is used to maintain surgical anaesthesia, this would seem to imply Desflurane is the absolute best drug for maintaining the correct level of surgical anaesthesia, because patients respond very rapidly when the anaesthesiologist adjusts the dose.
Scotland assures us that “patient safety remains at the heart of every clinical decision”, but if that were the case, why ban Desflurane? Why not let surgeons know about the greenhouse issue, but leave the choice of which drug to use to the judgement of the surgical team?
Perhaps the differences between Desflurane and the alternatives are too small to matter – this is not an issue I have studied. But whether Desflurane’s advantages are significant for a particular case no longer matters. Medical teams are now forbidden from using Desflurane, even if in their medical opinion Desflurane is the best anaesthetic for the procedure, so in that scenario at least, patient health comes second to the Scottish Health climate agenda.
Everyone of those officials in Scotland who supported this should be immediately subjected to an appendectomy, without anesthetic of course. They should know what they’re going to put other people through.
A number that strongly suggests that those who estimated this:
A) Did not identify radiation wavelengths involved.
B) Did not ensure that the involved wavelengths are not already at maximum wavelength absorption.
Making their estimates horrible.
An estimate based on lazy estimations and maximum gross assumptions; e.g., a) Their home energy use assume low energy needs; b) Optimistic conversion of anaesthetic non-use to their mysterious home energy usage.
What’s up with that Scotland parliament and independence?
Isn’t it time to stop the nonsense?
“ Desflurane has a greenhouse gas potential 2500x greater than CO2. But “… sooooo, ~0 percentage. Got it.
My son, an anesthesiologist in a major UK city, tells me that Desflurane hasn’t been used for many years and it’s only now that the Scottish woke police have caught up with “science” .
What they use now is just as good and not as polluting. The decision (a long time ago) had nothing to do with climate change.
Patients will drink a pint of whiskey before the operation and chew on a stick during the operation. No big deal.
Im curious as to their supposed useage. why? because the inhaled anaesthetics are a higher risk of cancer causation apparently so they prefer injectables for adults, kids apparently get the inhaleds still.
one of my vets refuses to use injectables and their costs per surgery are far higher cost for the knockout meds. I go to the other vets for the injectables use as the wakeup injectables are also enabling a same day home with less effect surgery outcomes from what ive seen. Im old enough to remember Ether and the blinding headaches n nausea it left you with;-(
this article pertains to this topic and others
“story tip” maybe?
anyway i found it rather interesting
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/attack-subversive-elites
Windscreen Water Repellant:
Back in 1988 they also banned a water repellant, used to clear aircraft windscreens while landing. This was a great product that meant you did not need to even use windscreen wipers. You could see everything.
Then it was banned because of alleged ozone holes, and we could not see anything on rainy approaches. The windscreen wipers of the B-737 were absolutely useless – all noise and no real action. I think they were early Land Rover wipers. In the late 90s they changed them for a new model that was quiet, but did absolutely nothing to clear the screen. Above 120 kt they just skidded over the screen.
So on two occasions since then, I was forced to abort the landing because I could not see the runway, due to rain. So the banning of this product made aviation much more dangerous. The Greens want you to die, when skidding off the runway.
(Note: autolands are not always possible, if the wind is too high, or the aircraft or crew are not autoland certified.)
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Fire Extinguishers:
At the same time they banned BCF fire extinguishers (the manufacture of their contents). Thus ever since this time, aviation has been recycling a diminishing quantity of BCF for the world’s aircraft. Resulting in a few prosecutions for companies which were caught diluting the BCF, for financial gain.
BCF is the best retardant out there, and the only one that will work on aircraft. In the 1980s when it could still be used, a fireman told me to put out a huge fire in a shipping container. I thought he was barking mad, or making fun of me, because the fire was so large. But I did as I was told, ducked down under the flames, gave a 3 second squirt, and the fire went out. By banning BCF, the Greens want you to die in a fiery aircraft incident.
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High-rise Flat Cladding:
The large Grenfield flats fire in London, was caused by the Greens banning CFCs in refrigerants. The cheap alternative in domestic fridges from Chiina was methane, and these had a habit of exploding. And a fridge did this in the lower levels of the Grenfield flats.
The resulting fire was compounded by the Greens insisting on insulating cladding, which had not been fully tested for flammability – especially when flames could run up between the flats and the cladding and use the gap as a chimney. The result was the entire block of flats becoming a huge roman-candle.
This was compounded by a ‘stay put’ fire policy, which suggested waiting for fire brigade help, rather than evacuating. Residents who called 999 (911) were told to stay in their flats. This was a ‘reasonable’ policy for concrete flats, and an internal fire. But this was an external fire, which could jump from flat to flat outside. So all the people who adhered to the ‘stay put’ policy died. Again, the Greens want you to die in a fiery housing complex.
Just as with Covid and Climate – never believe the authorities, and never believe the science.
Ralph
There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on global climate. There is plenty of scientific rationale to support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. 2,500 X 0 = 0 Hence releasing the anesthetic into the atmosphere will have no effect on global climate.