Search Tag: Environmental impact

ICU Management

2024 24 Apr

  Inhaled anaesthetics, including volatile hydrofluorocarbons like desflurane, sevoflurane, isoflurane, and halothane, as well as nitrous oxide (N2O), have potent greenhouse gas properties, contributing significantly to global warming and ozone layer depletion. Despite efforts to mitigate their release through gas scavenging systems, these gases...Read more

Executive Health Management

2024 24 Apr

  Inhaled anaesthetics, including volatile hydrofluorocarbons like desflurane, sevoflurane, isoflurane, and halothane, as well as nitrous oxide (N2O), have potent greenhouse gas properties, contributing significantly to global warming and ozone layer depletion. Despite efforts to mitigate their release through gas scavenging systems, these gases...Read more

Sustainability

2024 24 Apr

  Inhaled anaesthetics, including volatile hydrofluorocarbons like desflurane, sevoflurane, isoflurane, and halothane, as well as nitrous oxide (N2O), have potent greenhouse gas properties, contributing significantly to global warming and ozone layer depletion. Despite efforts to mitigate their release through gas scavenging systems, these gases...Read more

ICU Management

2024 22 Mar

  The environmental impact of ICUs was in focus at ISICEM 2024. Nicole Hunfeld, a hospital pharmacist at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, emphasised the need for a sustainable medication process, particularly noting the heightened waste production during the COVID-19 pandemic.    There is an overwhelming level of plastic waste in the...Read more

Health Management

2023 30 Oct

Individual countries and healthcare organisations have largely been working independently – or sometimes in small partnerships – to improve sustainability and reduce the environmental damage that comes as a biproduct of healthcare provided globally. Building on these successes, Health Proc Europe and HealthPRO Canada have launched Project PROcure...Read more

Sustainability

2023 30 Oct

Individual countries and healthcare organisations have largely been working independently – or sometimes in small partnerships – to improve sustainability and reduce the environmental damage that comes as a biproduct of healthcare provided globally. Building on these successes, Health Proc Europe and HealthPRO Canada have launched Project PROcure...Read more