Major medical group wipes study advocating doctors give less anesthesia to reduce carbon footprint
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A top medical group deleted mention of research suggesting that reducing anesthetic gas in surgery could be an effective tool to combat climate change.
"ASA pulled the news release from our site because it was inaccurate," ASA spokesperson Theresa Hill told Fox News Digital in an email. Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
The now-deleted article stated that inhaled anesthetics used during general anesthesia are responsible for up to 0.1% of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions. During a single hour of surgery in which the inhaled anesthetic desflurane is used, it continued, roughly the same amount of carbon emissions are produced as a car driving up to 470 miles.
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