Enhanced Recovery Programmes
Enhanced Recovery Programmes
The curriculum asks for knowledge of the 'Environmental effects of anaesthetic agents '.
The topic appeared as a CRQ in February 2024, with examiners lamenting poor knowldege on the 'temperature and mechanisms of degradation of Propofol'.
Resources
- Sustainability in anaesthesia and critical care: beyond carbon (BJA Education, 2022)
- The science of climate change and the effect of anaesthetic gas emissions (Anaesthesia, 2024)
- Atmospheric science, anaesthesia, and the environment (BJA Education, 2015)
- Anaesthesia and the environment (Association of Anaesthetists)
- Environmental sustainability in anaesthesia and critical care (BJA, 2020)
- Reducing the carbon footprint of general anaesthesia: a comparison of total intravenous anaesthesia vs. a mixed anaesthetic strategy in 47,157 adult patients (Anaesthesia, 2024)