Coffee and a Gas Episode 12: Climate impacts of anaesthesia with Dame Julia Slingo
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Happy New Year and welcome back to Coffee and a Gas Podcast! In this episode, Claire-Marie Agius interviews Dame Julia Slingo about the role of the anaesthetist in the climate crisis and the evidence base behind interventions to reduce the carbon footprint in anaesthesia.
Dame Slingo was the UK Chief Scientist at the Met Office until 2016. She is also a visiting professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where she held, prior to appointment to the Met Office, the position of Director of Climate Research in the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) National Centre for Atmospheric Science.
For further information on this topic, do look out for Dame Slingo’s article in the January issue of Anaesthesia.
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