Environmental impact should be considered an important outcome in studies

MD Husein Moloo, R Selvam… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - search.proquest.com
A customized mathematical model used in conjunction with clinician review allowed for a
reduction in financial costs while avoiding the removal of essential, but rarely used …

How we can reduce the environmental impact of our operating theatres: a narrative review

R Roscioli, T Wyllie, K Neophytou, L Dent… - ANZ Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is projected to become the leading cause of adverse health outcomes
globally, and the healthcare system is a key contributor. Surgical theatres are three to six …

Environmentalism in surgical practice

A Weiss, HM Hollandsworth, A Alseidi, L Scovel… - Current problems in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Most surgeons equate environmentalism with the softer sciences related more to personal
philosophy than with anything connected to the harder science and business of healing …

The Environmental Impact of Surgery

M Shoham, N Baker, M Peterson, P Fox - Journal of the American College …, 2021 - Elsevier
Methods We searched Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and GreenFILE databases for
papers that report any environmental impact measure by surgery, broadly, including …

[CITATION][C] Operative complications and quality improvement

JT Lee - The American journal of surgery, 1996 - Elsevier
I f quality improvement (QI) is whiskey, one snake in surgery's pocket is the fact that
operative care, like all work performed by humans, cannot be always perfect. Complications …

Environmental Sustainability and Perioperative Quality Improvement

EH Johnson, BH Cloyd - Perioperative Quality Improvement, 2023 - Elsevier
Healthcare systems in the United States produce 8% to 10% of national greenhouse gases,
twice as much per capita as other nations with advanced healthcare systems. Perioperative …

Comment on: Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries

JF Davies, F McGain - British Journal of Surgery, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The National Institute for Health and Care Research Global Health Research Unit on Global
Surgery 1 should be applauded for undertaking a prioritization study where a large number …

SUS 3 The Intercollegiate Green Theatre Checklist

V Pegna, H Robb, K Hurst, J Chu, F Testa… - British Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims The climate crisis is scientifically irrefutable and poses a major threat to human life (1,
2). Healthcare services face the paradox of managing the disease burden caused by the …

[CITATION][C] Interventions to achieve environmentally sustainable operating theatres: an umbrella review

C Batcup, T Porat, P Demirel, G Judah - 2024 - osf.io
This review aims to identify the healthcare interventions that have shown to or predicted to
reduce the environmental impact of surgery and compare them against each other using a …

Innovations towards achieving environmentally sustainable operating theatres: a systematic review

H Perry, N Reeves, J Ansell, J Cornish, J Torkington… - The Surgeon, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction The NHS accounts for 5.4% of the UK's total carbon footprint, with the
perioperative environment being the most resource hungry aspect of the hospital. The aim of …