Developing the green operating room: exploring barriers and opportunities to reducing operating room waste
Ludmilla Pillay,
Kenneth D Winkel,
Timothy Kariotis
Abstract:Summary
The Australian health care system contributes 7% of the national greenhouse gas emission footprint and generates massive waste streams annually. Operating rooms are a particular hotspot, generating at least 20% of the total hospital waste.
A systematic search of several global academic databases was conducted in mid‐2022 (articles from 1992 to 2022) for peer‐reviewed research relevant to waste management in the operating rooms. We then used thematic analysis to enumerate and characterise the strateg… Show more
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