In this annual review of Air Pollution Professor Chris Whitty recognises progress in reducing outdoor air pollution but stresses England needs to go further, and says tackling indoor air pollution…
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A team from Spain have published a method to establish the material composition of commonly used endoscopic accessories and then used life cycle assessment methodology to quantify the carbon footprint…
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16 May 2023 •
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López-Muñoz P, Martín-Cabezuelo R, Lorenzo-Zúñiga V, et al
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Happy to share a recently published article that look at new clinical reasoning (professional reasoning) that can specifically target environmental sustainable healthcare provision. The…
The following document complies with some of the most up-to-date research that has been conducted with regard to nursing and climate change. We have compiled the literature into one document to direct…
Thanks toNick Gulliver for highlighting this useful review article in Radiology. Itincludes some specific actions to address climate change in radiology departmentsClimate Change and Radiology:…
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2 May 2023 •
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Maura Brown, MD • Julia Hyde Schoen, MD, MS • Jonathan Gross, MD • Reed A. Omary, MD, MS • Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH
A project I did back in 2019/2020 looking at staff attitudes to sustainability at University Hospital Southampton.
Over 1,100 responses.
Mix of scale answer questions with some free text options…
Water is a dwindling natural resource and potable water is wrongly considered an unlimited resource. Dialysis, particularly hemodialysis, is a water-hungry treatment that impacts the environment. The…
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27 Apr 2023 •
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Mohamed Ben Hmida, Tahar Mechichi, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Mohamed Ksibi
Scarcity of water and energy, and legal requirements for discharge of waste and wastewater are forcing hemodialysis facilities to change their approach to a more integrated concept of connecting the…
Hemodialysis wastewater contains high concentrations of ammonia nitrogen and phosphorus. Recovery of these nutrients as soil fertilizers represents an interesting opportunity to ensure a sustainable…