EC Paediatrics

Editorial Volume 13 Issue 10 - 2024

Quality Improvement in Asthma Will Decrease Carbon Footprint and Improve the Future of Our Children

A R Gatrad*

Consultant Paediatrician and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, Universities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Kentucky, USA

*Corresponding Author: A R Gatrad, Consultant Paediatrician and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, Universities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Kentucky, USA.
Received: September 09, 2024; Published: September 17, 2024




  • Nationally the NHS is responsible for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions of which 13% are from asthma inhalers.
  • Pressurised pMDIs (metered dose inhalers) need a propellant. This is Hydrofluorocarbon which is thousands of times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
  • Seventy percent of inhalers we use are pMDIs (metered dose inhalers).

    A R Gatrad. "Quality Improvement in Asthma Will Decrease Carbon Footprint and Improve the Future of Our Children". EC Paediatrics 13.10 (2024): 01.

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