Reusable Versus Single-use ICU Equipment: What's the Environmental Footprint?

Overview

Journal Intensive Care Med

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2023 Nov 14

PMID 37962641

Authors

Forbes McGain

Scott McAlister

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Citing Articles

[Environmental sustainability in intensive care medicine].

Schuster M, Bein T Anaesthesiologie. 2024; .

PMID: 39668229 DOI: 10.1007/s00101-024-01485-3.

The United European Gastroenterology green paper-climate change and gastroenterology.

Duijvestein M, Sidhu R, Zimmermann K, Carrington E, Hann A, Sousa P United European Gastroenterol J. 2024; 12(9):1292-1305.

PMID: 39452615 PMC: 11578853. DOI: 10.1002/ueg2.12698.

Environmental sustainability in intensive care: the path forward. An ESICM Green Paper.

De Waele J, Hunfeld N, Baid H, Ferrer R, Iliopoulou K, Ioan A Intensive Care Med. 2024; 50(11):1729-1739.

PMID: 39377790 PMC: 11541358. DOI: 10.1007/s00134-024-07662-7.

How to follow the guidelines, when the appropriate fluid is missing?.

Brossier D, Goyer I, Morice C, Alsohime F, Mayberry H, Porcheret F Eur J Pediatr. 2024; 183(6):2797-2803.

PMID: 38498239 PMC: 11098858. DOI: 10.1007/s00431-024-05514-6.

Sustainability in Respiratory Therapy: Revisiting Reusables.

Branson R, Ring B Respir Care. 2024; 69(2):275-279.

PMID: 38267233 PMC: 10898465. DOI: 10.4187/respcare.11857.

References

Baid H, Damm E, Trent L, McGain F . Towards net zero: critical care. BMJ. 2023; 381:e069044. DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069044. View

Ban K, Minei J, Laronga C, Harbrecht B, Jensen E, Fry D . American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update. J Am Coll Surg. 2016; 224(1):59-74. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.10.029. View

Rizan C, Bhutta M . Environmental impact and life cycle financial cost of hybrid (reusable/single-use) instruments versus single-use equivalents in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg Endosc. 2021; 36(6):4067-4078. PMC: 9085686. DOI: 10.1007/s00464-021-08728-z. View

Donahue L, Hilton S, Bell S, Williams B, Keoleian G . A comparative carbon footprint analysis of disposable and reusable vaginal specula. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020; 223(2):225.e1-225.e7. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.02.007. View

McGain F, Story D, Lim T, McAlister S . Financial and environmental costs of reusable and single-use anaesthetic equipment. Br J Anaesth. 2017; 118(6):862-869. DOI: 10.1093/bja/aex098. View