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Anita Rao receives a salary as Trillium Health Partners, Physician Lead for Environmental Sustainability. She also receives a stipend as Chair, Sustainable Perioperative Care, CASCADES pan-Canadian networks. She received a stipend from Can-Health for coordinating an adoption trial for memsorb™. Peter Menikefs has no disclosures.

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  1. Ontario’s Anesthesiologists Environmental Sustainability Working Group, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Anita Rao MDCM, FRCPC & Peter Menikefs MDCM, FRCPC

  2. Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, ON, Canada

    Anita Rao MDCM, FRCPC

  3. Unity Health, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Peter Menikefs MDCM, FRCPC

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Rao, A., Menikefs, P. Anesthesiologists should lead nitrous oxide mitigation efforts. Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth 71, 152–153 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-023-02625-w

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