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Regional Anesthesia patient intake data collection form
This form captures details of anesthesia, surgery, and immediate post-operative recovery including patient satisfaction with the experience. It can be filled out by the anesthesiologist intraoperatively, and follow the patient to PACU.
Data collection form
Resource for Greening General Medical and Surgical Hospitals Pollution Prevention Information (City of Toronto, ChemTRAC 2010)
This Greening Resource for Medical and Surgical Hospitals will help you understand the chemicals that you are using and find ways to reduce or eliminate their use.
Document
Blank Sunnybrook Nitrous Oxide Charter (Sunnybrook Team)
A template for a nitrous oxide waste reduction project.
Template
Safe management of wastes from health-care activities: Second edition (WHO 2014)
This handbook – the result of extensive international consultation and collaboration – provides comprehensive guidance on safe, efficient, and environmentally sound methods for the handling and disposal of health-care wastes in normal situations and emergencies. Future issues such as climate change and the changing patterns of diseases and their impacts on health-care waste management are also discussed.
Document
Reusable garment bags Project Charter
An evidence-based ready-to-use planning document with project goal, scope, problem/opportunity statement, current state, root causeanalysis, change ideas, potential metrics, and strategies for embedding and spreading.
Project Charter
Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS) Background Paper for the CAS Position Statement on reducing harmful emissions, waste and costs
This document accompanies the document Greening the OR: CAS Position Statement on reducing harmful emissions, waste and costs and provides the rationale and evidence for CAS’ recommendations
Website
Daniels Biomedical Waste Poster
What can be disposed of in a black biomedical waste tote? For starters, no loose or contained sharps! This education poster outlines clear simple instructions for biomedical waste management using 106 Litre tubs and what can and cannot be safely or compliantly disposed of in the biomedical waste stream.
Poster
Maximum Surgical Blood Ordering Schedule (MSBOS) (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador: Department of Health and Community Services Provincial Blood Coordinating Program)
The Maximum Surgical Blood Ordering Schedule (MSBOS) designates the appropriate pretransfusion testing secondary to the estimated quantity of blood product units required to facilitate the potential need of 90 per cent of patients undergoing specific surgical procedures. Adoption of the MSBOS allows for efficient allocation of blood on the day of scheduled surgery.
Document
Prospective database of Regional Anesthesia patients
This data collection tool, created by Timur Özelsel and Rakesh Sondekoppam, contains all of the recommended parameters providers should follow to monitor the safety, efficiency, and outcomes of their breast regional anesthesia program. This can be used for internal continuous quality improvement or for research purposes.
Database data file
Mitigating the environmental impacts of anesthetic gases in healthcare (Alpamys Issanov, UBC Sustainability Scholar)
The purpose of this research project was to explore existing anesthetic gas emissions reduction initiatives, to understand contributions of anesthetic gas emissions across four health organizations in British Columbia, and to prioritize the action needed to reduce their impact.
Report