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Opinion piece on what ambulance based paramedic's could do to help demonstrate what we are already doing and what more we need to do to help reach net zero.
Would love to here the views of others…
New paper looking at the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of all products and processes involved in the manufacture and use of Penthrox. *Not open access
Results:This LCIA found that Penthrox…
This is a free online carbon footprint calculator for use in in-centre haemodialysis units. It measures your overall footprint and carbon intensity per patient session, and identifies the greenhouse…
Open access article looking at the patient, hospital and environmental cost of unnecessary bloodwork in general surgery inpatients at Vancouver General Hospital.
The article estimates the carbon…
The CSH SusQI Showcase is an annual webinar event designed to share best practice within SusQI education and implementation. This years event hosted 8 fabulous speakers as follows:
Session 1 -…
As part of Greener AHP week, Sarah Garland (Chief Sustainability Officer's Clinical Fellow at Greener NHS and Registered Dietitian) presented information and resources from One Blue Dot, the BDA's…
As part of Greener AHP Week,Jessie Frost (Chief Sustainability Officer's Clinical Fellow at Greener NHS) presented on overview of some of the ongoing national work on the environmental sustainability…
A French group have conducted a carbon footprint of a small, specialised ambulatory endoscopy unit in Strasbourg, France.
They estimate eachendoscopy procedure generates 28kg CO2e, with patient and…
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Joel Lacroute, Juliette MARCANTONI, Stephane PETITOT, Julien WEBER, Patrick LEVY, Bastien DIRRENBERGER, Irina Tchoumak, Mat- hilde BARON, Stéphanie GIBERT, Sandrine MARGUERITE, Anne DERLON, Olivier Gronier, Jerome Huppertz.
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 footprint…
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López-Muñoz P, Martín-Cabezuelo R, Lorenzo-Zúñiga V, et al
This evaluation shows that Social and Therapeutic Horticulture is effective in relieving distress in palliative care and may be considered a valued therapeutic intervention. The findings can inform…