Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit?
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Resumo: | ABSTRACT While medical health professionals are trained to detect, treat, and comfort, they are not trained to consider the environmental impact of the services they provide. Healthcare contributes significantly to resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions. Not only are healthcare institutions, whose mission is to protect and promote health, major polluters that use large amounts of energy and water, but the production, transport, use and disposal of medications and other medical consumables also leave considerable carbon footprints. In nephrology practice, dialysis programs have a particularly large carbon footprint with recurrent, per capita, resource consumption and waste generation profiles that are disproportionately high compared to other medical therapies. A close relationship between renal healthcare professionals and manufacturers is fundamental for the development of sustainable ecofriendly technologies, devices, and machines. Such collaboration is essential to reduce the environmental burden of renal therapies and maintain good quality of treatment. Renal units should register and evaluate their environmental performance and make an initial diagnosis of their environmental processes, to provide locally adapted recommendations for areas of additional improvement through environmental management programs. Regular auditing of these programs must be also performed aiming at continuous improvement with the setting of increasingly ambitious goals for reducing environmental burden of nephrology. |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit?EcologyKidney Failure, Chronic/therapyRenal DialysisSustainable GrowthWaste Disposal, FluidABSTRACT While medical health professionals are trained to detect, treat, and comfort, they are not trained to consider the environmental impact of the services they provide. Healthcare contributes significantly to resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions. Not only are healthcare institutions, whose mission is to protect and promote health, major polluters that use large amounts of energy and water, but the production, transport, use and disposal of medications and other medical consumables also leave considerable carbon footprints. In nephrology practice, dialysis programs have a particularly large carbon footprint with recurrent, per capita, resource consumption and waste generation profiles that are disproportionately high compared to other medical therapies. A close relationship between renal healthcare professionals and manufacturers is fundamental for the development of sustainable ecofriendly technologies, devices, and machines. Such collaboration is essential to reduce the environmental burden of renal therapies and maintain good quality of treatment. Renal units should register and evaluate their environmental performance and make an initial diagnosis of their environmental processes, to provide locally adapted recommendations for areas of additional improvement through environmental management programs. Regular auditing of these programs must be also performed aiming at continuous improvement with the setting of increasingly ambitious goals for reducing environmental burden of nephrology.Sociedade Portuguesa de Nefrologia2023-09-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articletext/htmlhttp://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0872-01692023000300157Portuguese Journal of Nephrology & Hypertension v.37 n.3 2023reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttp://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0872-01692023000300157Ávila,GonçaloMatias,Patríciainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2024-02-06T17:05:19Zoai:scielo:S0872-01692023000300157Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T02:19:10.441084Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? Ávila,Gonçalo Ecology Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy Renal Dialysis Sustainable Growth Waste Disposal, Fluid |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? |
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Environmental Impact of Nephrological Activity: How to Register, Evaluate and Audit? |
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Ávila,Gonçalo |
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Ávila,Gonçalo Matias,Patrícia |
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Matias,Patrícia |
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Ávila,Gonçalo Matias,Patrícia |
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Ecology Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy Renal Dialysis Sustainable Growth Waste Disposal, Fluid |
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Ecology Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy Renal Dialysis Sustainable Growth Waste Disposal, Fluid |
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ABSTRACT While medical health professionals are trained to detect, treat, and comfort, they are not trained to consider the environmental impact of the services they provide. Healthcare contributes significantly to resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions. Not only are healthcare institutions, whose mission is to protect and promote health, major polluters that use large amounts of energy and water, but the production, transport, use and disposal of medications and other medical consumables also leave considerable carbon footprints. In nephrology practice, dialysis programs have a particularly large carbon footprint with recurrent, per capita, resource consumption and waste generation profiles that are disproportionately high compared to other medical therapies. A close relationship between renal healthcare professionals and manufacturers is fundamental for the development of sustainable ecofriendly technologies, devices, and machines. Such collaboration is essential to reduce the environmental burden of renal therapies and maintain good quality of treatment. Renal units should register and evaluate their environmental performance and make an initial diagnosis of their environmental processes, to provide locally adapted recommendations for areas of additional improvement through environmental management programs. Regular auditing of these programs must be also performed aiming at continuous improvement with the setting of increasingly ambitious goals for reducing environmental burden of nephrology. |
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