Book contents
- Taking on TIVA
- Taking on TIVA
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Power to the People: the Rationale of a Practical Text
- Chapter 1 Why Bother?
- Chapter 2 You Say ‘PK’ and I Say ‘No Way!’; You Say ‘Keo’ and I Say ‘Time to Go!’
- Chapter 3 TCI and TIVA: What a Good Idea!
- Chapter 4 Milk of Amnesia
- Chapter 5 A Catwalk with a Difference
- Chapter 6 Let’s Get Started
- Chapter 7 Let’s Get Pumped!
- Chapter 8 ‘But I’m Used to MAC!’
- Chapter 9 Be Aware, Unaware and Confusion Everywhere
- Chapter 10 Do You Want Fries with That?
- Chapter 11 Intra- and Post-operative Analgesia for TIVA
- Chapter 12 Wakey Wakey!
- Chapter 13 Under Pressure
- Chapter 14 Ankle Biters
- Chapter 15 Old Timers
- Chapter 16 Big Can Be Beautiful!
- Chapter 17 A Bun in the Oven
- Chapter 18 Saving the Whales by Taking on TIVA
- Chapter 19 TIVA Drugs for Sedation
- Chapter 20 Skiing Off-Piste and Other Assorted Goodies
- Index
- References
Chapter 18 - Saving the Whales by Taking on TIVA
The Environmental Impact of TIVA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
Book contents
- Taking on TIVA
- Taking on TIVA
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Power to the People: the Rationale of a Practical Text
- Chapter 1 Why Bother?
- Chapter 2 You Say ‘PK’ and I Say ‘No Way!’; You Say ‘Keo’ and I Say ‘Time to Go!’
- Chapter 3 TCI and TIVA: What a Good Idea!
- Chapter 4 Milk of Amnesia
- Chapter 5 A Catwalk with a Difference
- Chapter 6 Let’s Get Started
- Chapter 7 Let’s Get Pumped!
- Chapter 8 ‘But I’m Used to MAC!’
- Chapter 9 Be Aware, Unaware and Confusion Everywhere
- Chapter 10 Do You Want Fries with That?
- Chapter 11 Intra- and Post-operative Analgesia for TIVA
- Chapter 12 Wakey Wakey!
- Chapter 13 Under Pressure
- Chapter 14 Ankle Biters
- Chapter 15 Old Timers
- Chapter 16 Big Can Be Beautiful!
- Chapter 17 A Bun in the Oven
- Chapter 18 Saving the Whales by Taking on TIVA
- Chapter 19 TIVA Drugs for Sedation
- Chapter 20 Skiing Off-Piste and Other Assorted Goodies
- Index
- References
Summary
Reducing the energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of health services could make a meaningful contribution to the environment. In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS) was responsible for 21.3 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents (i.e. 426 kg per person), or approximately 3% of all GHG emissions in England in 2004.[1] In the United States, annual health-care sector emissions were 545.5 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2007 (i.e. 1510 kg per person) or approximately 8% of the country’s total GHG emissions for that year.[2] In Australia, total national emissions were 547 million and 553 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents in 2007 and 2008, respectively.[3] Reducing health-related GHG emissions by 10% from the US health system alone, could have the same environmental impact as a 10% reduction in emissions from the whole of the Australian economy.
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