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This review looks at how a 20-year-old male grew Rhodotorula muciliginosa (fungal infection) from his peritoneal dialysis fluid on three separate occasions. Peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis…
Published date
November 2020
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Victoria Jane Carnall, Stephanie Murdock, Cressida Auckland, Christopher J Mulgrew.
An article from an Indian nursing journal considering the need for changes to nursing education to cover the prevalence of zoonotic infections in communities. With public health and preventative…
Article discussing the environmental consequences of endoscopy work. This considers the amount and type of waste produced as well as the energy required for this branch of healthcare.
When looking at implementing a curriculum for sustainable healthcare, it has been really difficult to find publications that focus on the HOW as opposed to the WHY. I was very pleased to find this…
One Blue Dot is the BDA's Environmentally Sustainable Diet Project, created to help make theirSustainable Diets Policya reality. Includes a toolkit of information, graphics, tools and links to help…
*Please note: this article is behind a paywall*
Abstract:Current dialysis technologies require vast quantities of pure water; however, water is a finite resource and water scarcity is increasing…
Key learning point: Simple measures to reduce, reuse and recycle paper resulted in a 75% reduction of paper use, resulting in environmental and financial savings.
Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis…
Published date
November 2012
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Libby Critchley, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
ABSTRACT
High-technology medicine saves lives and produces waste; this is the case of dialysis. The increasing amounts of waste products can be biologically dangerous in different ways: some…
