Definitions
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- noun medicine The compound
perfluoro methyl ethyl ether , which is used for maintenance of general anaesthesia.
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Examples
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However, since nitrous oxide continues to have an impact over a longer timeframe, it "may not be an environmentally sound tradeoff for desflurane," Ryan and Nielsen write.
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Using desflurane for one hour is equivalent to 235 to 470 miles of driving.
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Newswise - Inhaled anesthetics widely used for surgery-particularly the anesthetic desflurane-make a measurable contribution to global warming, according to a study in the July issue of
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In particular, giving nitrous oxide as a carrier gas increased the GWP of isoflurane or sevoflurane, but decreased the GWP of desflurane.
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The results showed that desflurane had a much longer "lifetime" in the atmosphere than the other anesthetics studied: 10 years, compared to 1.2 years for sevoflurane and 3.6 years for isoflurane.
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The researchers determined "infrared absorption cross-sections" to calculate the global warming potential (GWP) of three major inhaled anesthetics: sevoflurane, isoflurane, and desflurane.
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Inhaled anesthetics widely used for surgery-particularly the anesthetic desflurane-make a measurable contribution to global warming, according to a study in the July issue of
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Inhaled anesthetics widely used for surgery-particularly the anesthetic desflurane-make a measurable contribution to global warming, according to a study in the July issue of
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Using desflurane for one hour is equivalent to 235 to 470 miles of driving.
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Considering the flow rates at which the different anesthetics were given, desflurane had about 26 times the GWP of sevoflurane and 13 times the impact of isoflurane.
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