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đ Whatâs inside this guide?This practical guide outlines how dialysis centres can reduce their environmental impact through actionable and scalable good practices. It includes:đ Context &âŠ
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2 Apr 2025 •
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Green Nephrology group of the Francophone Society of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (SFNDT)
Intensive Care Medicine is the journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which has a My Green ICU collection of articles related to improving the environmental sustainability ofâŠ
In this advocacy article from the European Kidney Health Alliance, the authors describe the mutual impact of climate change on kidney health and kidney care on ecology. They propose an array ofâŠ
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19 Apr 2023 •
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Raymond Vanholder, John Agar, Marion Braks, Daniel Gallego, Karin G F Gerritsen, Mark Harber, Edita Noruisiene, Jitka Pancirova, Giorgina B Piccoli, Dimitrios Stamatialis, Fokko Wieringa
John Agar and Katherine Barraclough have produced a fantastic review looking at the impacts of environmental change on kidney health as well asthe environmental damage caused bykidney servicesâŠ
*please note: this article is behind a paywall*
Abstract
The US Environmental Protection Agency Resource Conservation website begins: âNatural resource and energy conservation is achieved byâŠ
Podiatrists have a shared responsibility to work and live as âgreenâ as possible, and to share this message
with patients. Reducing waste, physically and in the form of unnecessary treatment, andâŠ
Open access article
Abstract: GI endoscopy is highly resource-intensive with a significant contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste generation. Sustainable endoscopy in the contextâŠ
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 footprintâŠ
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16 May 2023 •
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LĂłpez-Muñoz P, MartĂn-Cabezuelo R, Lorenzo-ZĂșñiga V, et al
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. TheâŠ
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27 Apr 2023 •
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Mohamed Ben Hmida, Tahar Mechichi, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Mohamed Ksibi