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Maintain access to desflurane is essential for clinical safety, training quality, and system resilience.
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Maintaining access to a diverse range of anesthetics, including desflurane, is argued to be essential for clinical safety, training quality, and healthcare system resilience despite environmental concerns.
Healthcare systems worldwide are under mounting pressure from increasingly complex challenges. Supply chain instability, ageing populations, increasing multimorbidity, pandemics, geopolitical unrest and a continuously rising surgical and interventional complexity require a high structural and functional resilience. In this landscape anesthesiology as a cornerstone of modern perioperative medicine must maintain flexibility and robustness. Central to this adaptability is the availability of a comprehensive anesthetic armamentarium, including volatile inhalational agents such as sevoflurane, desflurane and isoflurane as well as intravenous and regional anesthesia procedures.
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Kranke et al. (2026) studied anesthetic diversity. desflurane was evaluated on global warming potential impact. Maintain access to desflurane is essential for clinical safety, training quality, and system resilience.
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