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Abstract:Current dialysis technologies require vast quantities of pure water; however, water is a finite resource and water scarcity is increasing…
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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…
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…
Just a handy poster from HEAL that we are display within my practice to advise and inform all on the effects of the environment on our populations health.
There are many other useful resources…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members
Elena Grossman, MPH, Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD, Marie Heffernan, PhD, Erika Ninos, Monica Nakielski, Michelle…
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Elena Grossman, MPH, Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD, Marie Heffernan, PhD, Erika Ninos, Monica Nakielski, Michelle Hoersch
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location:Brian Gray/ Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Issue:MedStar Harbor Hospital (MHH) sits on…
SusQI project completed as part of The 2020 Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Green Ward Competition.
Project Aim: To reduce the waste of linen and consumables in the ICU.
Results:
At…
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 services…
Improving resource use by reusing and recycling dialysis reverse osmosis (RO) system reject water. ROsystem reject water was reused to provide steam for sterilising autoclave systems, for waste…
