Sleep Medicine's Path to Environmental Sustainability
An experience with a single-use HST inspired me to find out how sleep medicine could do more to facilitate environmental sustainability.
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An experience with a single-use HST inspired me to find out how sleep medicine could do more to facilitate environmental sustainability.
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When health systems and hospitals use regulated reprocessed "single-use" devices, they reduce procedure costs without compromising patient safety, build supply chain resilience and help governments and
News Category Global Banking & Finance Reviews Global Warming Impact of “Single-Use” Medical Device Cut in Half When Remanufactured Device Used Instead, According to Newly Published Research in Sustainability Global Warming Impact of “Single-Use” Medical Device Cut in Half When Remanufactured Device Used Instead, According to Newly Published Research in Sustainability Hospitals could cut emissions associated with some medical device use in half by opting instead for remanufactured single-use medical devices. The LCA evaluated the use of a remanufactured electrophysiology catheter com...
E-Mail The carbon footprint of plastic production for initial use is greater than the global warming impact of the entire process used for medical device reprocessing Use of reprocessed devices is environmentally superior to use of original products in 13 of 16 categories evaluated Reprocessing found to advance "circular economy," a key strategy for reaching the UN Sustainability Goals LCA offers evidence showing that in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and honor the Paris Climate Agreement, EU Member States must opt-in to EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR)'s reprocessing/remanufac...