Global Surgery Blueprint Unveiled for Reduced Eco Footprint miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It's almost second nature for doctors to toss aside a suture kit once they've patched up a patient. But as those instruments join a pile of medical waste in an industry already heavy with single-use items, one U.K. hospital is pivoting to reusing them.
The carbon footprint of products used in the five most common surgical operations performed in the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been analyzed, revealing that 68% of the carbon contributions are attributed to single-use items, including single-use gowns, patient drapes, and instrument table drapes
Brighton and Hove News » Single-use surgical items make up two thirds of NHS operations' carbon footprint brightonandhovenews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brightonandhovenews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Single-use surgical items make up two-thirds of the carbon footprint of the five most common NHS operations, a new study has found.By observing operations across three sites at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, the researchers saw tha.