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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…
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3 Jul 2023 •
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Victoria Jane Carnall, Stephanie Murdock, Cressida Auckland, Christopher J Mulgrew.
Discussion highlighting the energy wastage stemming from unnecessary colonoscopies. Offers a proposed outline to reduce number of colonoscopies, which are not necessary, as a means to reduce energy…
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) have produced this toolkit:
A beginners guide to sustainability in the ICU
There is guidance on these themes for intensive care…
This study looks at countries who have calculated their national health systems carbon footprint: UK, America, Australia, China, Japan and highlights opportunities for improved data availability and…
Investigation into Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions at different life cycle points within gastrointestinal biopsies in a surgical pathology context. Aim to identify hotspots of GHG emissions and…
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…
Thedegroeneic.nl website is in Dutch forThe Green ICU partnership in the Netherlands, but Chrome has a translation extension to read the content in English.
This Sustainable Hospital website is a Dutch initiative connecting researchers with expertise in engineering, design and policy (TU Delft); medical sciences (Erasmus MC); operations & technology…
The biopsy process at a large academic pathology laboratory was grouped into steps. Each supply and reagent was catalogued and postuse treatment noted. Energy consumption was estimated for capital…