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Table 1 Quantity of nitrous oxide used at university hospital Gießen

From: Persistent use of nitrous oxide for anaesthesia in European hospitals despite its harmfulness to the climate – how emission taxation can achieve the coupling of cost-effectiveness and climate protection: observational study

Year

Number of pressure bottles 7.5 kg

Number of pressure bottles 37.5 kg

Number of pressure bottle containers 450 kg

Total consumption in kg

Total tCO2e emissions due to nitrous oxide

2016

12

3

5

2,460

731

2017

20

18

7

4,035

1,185

2018

10

8

9

4,440

1,319

2019

11

6

15

7,155

2,104

2020

11

6

10

5,055

1,434