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This report outlines the current practice of bronchoscopes use in Cambridge as well as impacts of using reusable bronchoscopes in comparison to single-use scopes. It also includes learning on…
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1 May 2025 •
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Katie Sell, Richard Hales, Lina Solanki, Brigid Boultbee, Ruth Jackson
Project completed as part of the 2024 Coventry and Warwickshire Green Team Competition.Team Members:Dr Anthony HardingDr Kate LaverSetting / patent group: Critical care unitIssue:Central Line Packs:…
Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023.
OPAT Service at HHFT in the Net Zero NHS Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) is a service that…
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18 Dec 2023 •
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Mazurek J., Cunningham J., Johnson R., Munro S., Mendes C., Okubuike A., Parker N., Onyendoro U., Nops J., Creese F., Rogers B., and Thomas C.
Project Completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023
Glove Use Awareness Campaign Due to the growth in use of PPE items and many studies highlighting the misuse of…
These slides and video recording are from the Critical Care Susnet Sustainable PPE session focused on gloves, along with the Intensive Care Society Gloves Off posters and implementation guide.
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19 Dec 2023 •
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Graham Pike, Jennie Wilson, Sam Clark, Intensive Care Society
Disposable gloves are one of the biggest environmental hotspots in hospital, with more than 100 used per patient per day in intensive care. Despite this usage there are many circumstances where glove…
The key to environmental footprint improvement in healthcare and critical care uses the framework: avoiding, reducing, reusing, and recycling without compromising safe, quality care, with simultaneous…
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19 Jun 2023 •
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Heather Baid, principal lecturer, Eleanor Damm, specialty trainee, Louise Trent, intensive care physician, Forbes McGain, associate dean sustainable healthcare
This Swedish life cycle assessment by Hemberg et al. (2023) compares single-use and reusable central venous catheter insertion kits, including metal, plastic and textiles items. In contrast to a 2012…
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 of…
