NCT07252973

Sustainable Anaesthesia Practices in EUROPE - a Prospective International Cohort Study

Sustainable Anaesthesia Practices in EUROPE

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 2,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: European Society of Anaesthesiology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In response to the climate crises, Societies of Anaesthesiology around the globe call for action to reduce the carbon footprint of daily clinical work. They recommend the use of regional and total intravenous anaesthesia, and for inhalational anaesthesia cases, the use of sevoflurane with low fresh gas flow (FGF \< 0.5 lpm) settings. Surprisingly, the type of anaesthesia and ventilation settings commonly used remain largely unknown. This pragmatic observational cross-sectional assessment at all anaesthesia workstations in participating European hospitals in daily routine aims to evaluate anaesthesia practices in the paediatric and adult patient population.

Conditions

• Anaesthesia Conduction
• Paediatric and Adult Patients
• Carbon Footprint in Anesthetic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Anaesthesia technique	Observation of type of anaesthesia used in Europe

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-03-01
• Primary completion: 2027-03-01
• Completion: 2027-03-01
• First posted: 2025-11-28
• Last updated: 2025-11-28