What You Need to Know to Make Anesthesia Less Impactful on the Planet
(and it may even help your bottom line!)
Livestream April 2, 2025 - 2 CE Hours
6:30-8:30 PM
On-Demand Viewing through May 16, 2025
The climate impact of general anesthesia is not often discussed and is in many ways not well understood. The drugs we use, especially inhalant anesthetics, do have what many consider an outsized impact on the environment. Understanding this environmental impact and the ways in which we can all minimize our footprint while still providing the best anesthesia possible to our patients will help move veterinary anesthetic practice forward. In the end, even small changes can have large benefits, especially when aggregated over a large population of concerned and caring veterinarians.
At the end of this seminar, the attendee will be able to:
- Describe the ways in which inhalant anesthetics can impact the environment
- Adjust their anesthetic practice to safely minimize the use of inhalants for GA
- List a number of different drugs and techniques to minimize the environmental impact of GA and especially the inhalant anesthetics
- Describe ways to build their practice and minimize costs while still keeping an eye on the environment
Members: $80 Lifetime/Retired/Recent Grad Members: $60 Non-member Veterinarians - $100
Dr. Griffenhagen is an anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. After obtaining his DVM from Louisiana State University, he completed an anesthesia internship and worked as a clinical instructor for emergency medicine, also at LSU. He then completed a residency in veterinary anesthesia at Colorado State University along with a Masters Degree, and obtained his specialty certification from the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (ACVAA) in 2015. He is currently also pursuing a PhD in pharmacology with an emphasis on information technology and the use of advanced technology for PK modeling. His interests include local and regional analgesia, the use of point-of-care imaging in veterinary anesthesia, and minimizing the environmental impact of the profession he loves. When not at work (not that often…), he would love to talk you into coming to Colorado to do some burro racing!
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