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Red Bag Initiative (Carolinas Medical Centre)
A case study on reducing the environmental impacts of the operating room at Carolinas Medical Centre
Case Study
Optimize custom packs Project Charter Summary
A two-page summary of the cutsom packs project charter, including potential metrics, root causes and change ideas.
Project Charter
Eliminate Desflurane Project Charter Summary
A two-page summary of the desflurane project charter, including potential metrics, root causes and change ideas.
Project Charter
Device remanufacturing Project Charter Summary
A two-page summary of the device remanufacturing project charter, including potential metrics, root causes and change ideas.
Project Charter
Low Flow Anesthesia Project Charter Summary
A two-page summary of the low flow anesthesia project charter, including potential metrics, root causes and change ideas.
Project Charter
Nitrous Oxide Waste Reduction Project Charter Summary
A two-page summary of the nitrous oxide wastage project charter, including potential metrics, root causes and change ideas.
Project Charter
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