Performing surgery on a warming planet: Can anesthesia go green?
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
It was early morning in an operating theater at Providence Hospital in Portland, Ore. A middle-aged woman lay on the operating table, wrapped in blankets. Surgeons were about to cut out a cancerous growth in her stomach. But first, Dr. Brian Chesebro put her under by placing a mask over her face....