Recycling is great but refusing, rethinking, reducing and reusing are better. Single use items have high financial, environmental and social cost than reusables. Expert consensus guidelines now recommend preference for reusable over single use items. See below some of our ideas for reducing single use items, including some reusable products and the evidence which supports…
Author: Duty Anaesthetist
Anaesthetic Machine Reported Nitrous Usage
Interrogating Anaesthetic machine logs can give a clear picture of N2O usage by a given machine. The cumulative gas usage can be reset and then periodically reviewed to allow clear consumption data, per anaesthetic machine, for a given period. The way to detect N2O consumption from 2 popular anaesthetic machines is outlined below. GE Aysis…
Nitrous Oxide Pipeline Test Protocol
Several hospitals in Australia have demonstrated large leaks of nitrous oxide that were not detected by the routine inspections required by Section 6 of Australian Standard 2896:2021. As N2O is a schedule 4 drug and significant greenhouse gas, any such leakage is unacceptable. There are two ways to detect a leak: monitor pressure or weight…
Guide: Setting up a Green Theatres Group.
Setting up a GTG in your hospital starts with a conversation with your colleagues. A GTG can achieve great things as a front-line staff driven team and then amplify it’s achievements by networking with other GTGs and engaging health service executives. Dr Adam Crossley, from Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals shares some of his wisdom:…