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Abstract
Background
Haemodialysis treatments generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mainly as a result of the equipment, consumables and pharmaceuticals required. An internal audit…
Promoting practical action that can help to reduce the environmental impact of respiratory healthcare.
The PCRS has published a calendar of practical steps you can take to make your respiratory…
Dr Alan Dangour, Climate Director at the Wellcome Trust joined our Susnet Kidney Care event as an esteemed academic to share his knowledge on how we all need to take action in our respective fields to…
KitNewCare is a pioneering EU co-funded project to make kidney healthcare more environmentally sustainable. Recognising healthcare’s role in global carbon emissions (5-11%), the project focuses on…
📘 What’s inside this guide?This practical guide outlines how dialysis centres can reduce their environmental impact through actionable and scalable good practices. It includes:🔍 Context &…
Published date
September 2023
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by
Green Nephrology group of the Francophone Society of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (SFNDT)
We were proud to welcome international leader and Associate Director of Nursing in Renal, Gloria Munoz Figueroa to our June network event who shared her valuable insights on 'Learning from Nurses…
Rumina Önaç is a GP and Sustainability Lead for 12 surgeries in York, where her inspirational work has achieved national Green Impact for Health awards of silver for her own surgery and a bronze for…
A pressing need exists for hemodialysis resource usage data based on current-day practice and hemodialysis systems. Accordingly, this study aimed to measure and compare the water and energy…
As climate change and natural resource scarcity escalate, all the while the number of people requiring dialysis increases, there is an urgent need for dialysis facilities that meet care needs while…
We used attributional process-based life-cycle analysis to quantify CO2 equivalent emissions associated with the delivery of Baxter’s HomeChoice automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) and continuous…