The carbon footprint of laparoscopic surgery: should we offset?

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• 作者：A. D. Gilliam ; B. Davidson and J. Guest
• 关键词：Abdominal ; Costs ; Technical
• 刊名：Surgical Endoscopy
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：February, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：22
• 期：2
• 页码：573
• 全文大小：110.4 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Surgery
  Gynecology
  Gastroenterology
  Hepatology
  Proctology
  Abdominal Surgery
  
• 出版者：Springer New York
• ISSN：1432-2218

文摘

The aim of this study was to estimate the effect that the expansion of laparoscopic surgery has had on global warming. Laparoscopic procedures performed in a hospital over a 10-year period were analysed. The number of CO<sub>2sub> cylinders (size C) used over a 2.5-year period and the “carbon footprint” of each cylinder was calculated. There was a fourfold increase of in the number of laparoscopic procedures performed over the past 10 years (n = 174–688). Median operative time for the laparoscopic procedures performed over the past 2.5-years (n = 1629) was 1.01 h (range 0.3–4.45 h) with 415 cylinders used in this period giving an operative time per cylinder of 3.96 h. Each cylinder produces only 0.0009 of tonnes of CO<sub>2sub>. Despite increasing frequency of the laparoscopic approach in general surgery, its impact on global warming is negligible.