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Pearls from CAHA Forum 2023 Sustainability in Practice session

Posted on September 14, 2023

Cleaning an Eye Clinic – Alex Buller (Hawkes Bay NZ)

  • Hypochlorous Acid: HOCl. Made in-house by NZ$10,000 machine. Requires electricity, NaCl and H2O. Some detergent is added to spray bottles and reusable cloths are used to clean areas. Highly effective at killing all the bugs. EWCOM.com.
  • Biodegradable masks
  • Biodegradable instrument pouches used by CSSD to package sterile instruments
  • Solar powered eye clinic. Carbon neutral certified.
  • Don’t use minims, use a large bottle and drop drug with a ANTT. The bottle then is available for many patients.
  • Recording of presentation available here

Things to make your Urology service more sustainable – Ashley Lee (Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA)

  • Reduce bluey use by substitution with other towels, sheets or biodegradable absorptive sheets
  • Reduce diaper use, as they have a significant waste and carbon footprint. Offer urological procedures like botox to reduce incontinence, thus reducing diaper use.
  • Use e-consent rather than paper consent forms
  • Reusable surgical laparoscopic instruments
  • Lifestyle modification for patients – smoking, obesity: less likely to have complications and end up in ICU, which has higher carbon footprint
  • Celebrate and collaborate on the sustainability wins
  • Recording of presentation available here

Doctors for Environment Australia: Planetary health education in healthcare – Sonia Chanchlani

  • Lots of great planetary health education resources have been developed to integrate in your frontline health training.
  • Find green champions within education teams in your health service who can integrate this material in teaching.
  • Update your existing education material to include these concepts
  • Adopt AMC medical education standards, including sustainability.

Schneider Electric’s approach to decarbonisation (apologies if not completely represented)

  • Measure baseline CO2
  • Define strategy and committments
  • Digitize data and ESG reporting
  • Decarbonise
    • Manage energy, resources, risk
    • Electrify everything
    • Reduce – improve resource efficiency, energy efficiency
    • Replace – transition to low carbon energy
    • Engage – with supply chain

Life Cycle Assessment resource https://www.openlca.org/

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Nitrous oxide - in hospitals with no paeds and no obstetrics, decommission the manifold!

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