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Scottish Environmental Anaesthesia Group - 1st Newsletter

SEA-G was started a couple of years ago as an informal WhatsApp group of green-minded anaesthetists in Scotland.

Review article: Environmental sustainability in anaesthesia and critical care

British Journal of Anaesthesia, 125 (5): 680e692 (2020)
Forbes McGain, Jane Muret, Cathy Lawson and Jodi D. Sherman

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British Journal of Anaesthesia

August, 2020

The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.

Highlights:

Journal of Cleaner Production

December, 2020

Environmental impact of PPE in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chantelle Rizan, Malcolm Reed, Mahmood F Bhutta

MedRxiv preprint

December, 2020

ANZCA Webinar: Environmental Sustainability in Anaesthesia

A panel of experts explore environmental sustainability issues in anaesthesia practice and discuss the opportunities for research and innovation, such as collaborating with non-medical researchers, and trainee-led solutions to sustainable practice.

Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

December, 2020

Nitrous Oxide and Entonox Manifold Waste Reduction: Free Lunch and Learn online seminar

Do you prescribe nitrous oxide? It's a vital medicine for many specialties within health care.

SHARE conference - 7 May 2021 online

Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

Green Endoscopy: a call for sustainability in the midst of COVID-19

Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology article introducing an overview of key challenges around sustainability in Endoscopy.

November, 2020

Upcoming free event - Remote Consultations: What’s their role in Sustainable Healthcare?

Join us & our inspiring speakers to consider the role of remote consultations and care as part of a sustainable healthcare service and whether

Last days to sign up to our Carbon Footprinting for Healthcare Course

This training course will help health professionals, quality improvement leads and medical students to become carbon literate.

Patient information: Your anaesthetic and the environment

Information for patients on the environmental impact of anaesthesia.

"You may choose to use this information to ask your anaesthetist about your particular anaesthetic for your forthcoming procedure."

Royal College of Anaesthetists

October, 2020

Nitrous usage in new hospitals

Hi everyone,

I would be really keen to hear from anyone here who's had experience working in new-build hospitals recently.

Hello!

Hi all, I'm Chris, the new Fellow in sustainable anaesthesia, having recently taken over from the wonderful Cathy Lawson.

Three days left to apply for Sustainability Volunteer positions

The closing date for applications for three Sustainblity Volunteer positions at CSH is this Monday 14th September at 9am

Welsh Environmental Anaesthesia Network (WEAN) newsletter

Amazing newsletter - loads of info and success stories from WEAN - and an invitation to their annual meeting on 21 October 2020.

Webinar: The importance of sustainability in the surgical profession

Join us tomorrow evening for a webinar hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on 'The importance of sustainability in the surgical pro

Sustainable Surgery Survey

We would like to invite all surgeons and surgical trainees to complete a survey on the behaviours, attitudes and practice of surgeons towards envir

Opportunity for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at CSH

A position is available for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

Please can you complete our survey on reducing desflurane/nitrous oxide?

We are keen to get a snapshot of how people are trying to reduce the use of desflurane and nitrous oxide in their workplace.

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

Health systems are in constant need of improvement - and in some cases total redesign.

Sustainability in Quality Improvement learning resources

Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustainable health system.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2017

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Nordic Know-How: Nitrous Oxide Destruction

The theme of this first report in the Nordic Know-How series is nitrous oxide destruction. Nitrous oxide substantially contributes to the climate footprint of the healthcare sector. This report provides good examples on how to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide in hospitals.

Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2020

Prescribing Movement resource

This toolkit gives you everything you need for a 1 minute, 5 minute and even more minute conversation, complete with step-by-step guides, behavioural change insights and all the evidence to back it up.

Moving Medicine

January, 2020

Health Care’s Climate Footprint Report HCWH / ARUP

Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Sector Contributes to the Global Climate Crisis and Opportunities for Action.

September, 2019

PVC Recovery case study - Dunedin NZ

May, 2019

Reduction and standardization of surgical instruments in pediatric inguinal hernia repair

One way of reducing waste in theatre is to think about the surgical instruments we use (or open and don’t use!).

Journal of Pediatric Urology February 2018 Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 20–24

February, 2019

A new role for anaesthetists in environmentally sustainable healthcare?

Our article published today! "The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change. We believe that this places anaesthetists in an ideal position to lead educational initiatives on environmental sustainability."

C. L. Shelton, S. C. McBain, F. Mortimer, S. M. White. Anaesthesia.

March, 2019

The impact of surgery on global climate: a carbon footprinting study of operating theatres in three health systems.

This (open access) paper compares the carbon footprint of 3 operating theatres (UK, US and Canada). It is really interesting to see how different institutional practices influence the carbon footprint, once again highlighting the significant reductions achieved by reducing desflurane usage.

Lancet Planet Health

December, 2017

Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Laparoscopic Surgery

A really interesting article looking at the individual contribution of different methods of ‘greening’ strategies in operating theatres.

Am J Public Health. 2018 Apr;108(S2):S158-S164

April, 2018

A prospective clinical, cost and environmental analysis of a clinician-led virtual urology clinic

An example of how surgeons can help reduce carbon emissions outside of theatres too!

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

January, 2019

Greening the Operating Room™ Checklist

Practice Greenhealth is an American organisation working to promote sustainable, eco-friendly practices in healthcare https://practicegreenhealth.org/initiatives/greening-operating-room.

https://practicegreenhealth.org

February, 2019

Sustainable Surgery Survey

We would like to invite all surgeons and surgical trainees to complete a survey on the behaviours, attitudes and practice of surgeons towards envir

Opportunity for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at CSH

A position is available for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

Royal College of Surgeons Bulletin Sustainability Issue

The Royal College of Surgeons of England have dedicated their July issue of Bulletin to sustainability.

AHP Sustainability Survey: Deadline Extended Until 31st July

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey has 11 questions and should take about 5-15 minutes to complete:

AHP Sustainability Survey: Four Days Left

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey is designed to help understand how Allied Health Professionals are addressing sustainability issue

Sustainable surgery webinar

Please join us on 30th June for a webinar hosted by the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) to find out how to improve the sustainability of

Help with projects to repurpose unused kit or non recyclables

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Please can you complete our survey on reducing desflurane/nitrous oxide?

We are keen to get a snapshot of how people are trying to reduce the use of desflurane and nitrous oxide in their workplace.

Plastics in Healthcare: Time for a re-evaluation

Check out our article examining plastics in healthcare published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine- we found 101 pieces si

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We are keen to get a snapshot of how people are trying to reduce the use of desflurane and nitrous oxide in their workplace.

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

Health systems are in constant need of improvement - and in some cases total redesign.

Sustainability in Quality Improvement learning resources

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