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The UK government green…
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) have produced this toolkit:
A beginners guide to sustainability in the ICU
There is guidance on these themes for intensive care…
The need for higher manufacturing sustainability is the lesser-known side of the manufacturing process and its associated pollution.
All production batches contain items that cannot be used due to…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: Marianne Dawson, Canada, British Columbia
Issue: To scale sustainable change and not add to the…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: USA
Issue: US and UK estimates show the supply chain to cause the majority of emissions from…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: Wales, UK
Issue: The healthcare sector contributes heavily to climate change, producing 4.4% of…
Investigation into Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions at different life cycle points within gastrointestinal biopsies in a surgical pathology context. Aim to identify hotspots of GHG emissions and…
Ninety-eight procedures were performed on 97 patients. The most commonly performed procedures were drainages (30), placement and removal of venous access (21), and computed tomography-guided biopsies…
This study uses hybrid environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify average emissions associated with resource use in an acute inpatient unit with 49 beds and 14,427 hospitalization days and…
