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National Academies of Medicine’s Climate Collaborative Recommends Hospitals Use More FDA Regulated Reprocessed Devices as Strategy to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [22 May 2023 / Washington, D.C. and Berlin] As part of its Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is recommending the use of reprocessed medical devices as one of several key steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. health systems. NAM encourages health systems to reduce their dependence on single-use plastics, switch from disposable to reusable products, and ..read more

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SCTS is delighted to support the recent launch of the Green surgery checklist supported by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of England and The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Please find the link here to the Compendium of Evidence to Support Sustainable Surgery. Click here to download the checklist. The post Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland: Green Surgery Checklist appeared first on AMDR | Association of Medical Device Reprocessors ..read more

The health sector accounts for almost 5% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. If it were a country, hospitals and health systems would be the fifth largest emitter, and its greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double those from the entire airline industry. Climate change is a public health issue that threatens all of us. Water and air pollution increase, leading to more chronic respiratory disease, such as asthma. Increased temperatures due to climate change lead to increased ground-level ozone, which cause airway inflammation and damages lung tissue. That hospitals are a leading cause o ..read more

AMDR’s Website Overhaul Offers Action Steps and Compendium of Information to Support Continued Global Growth of Reprocessing [27 February 2023 / Washington, D.C. and Berlin] A new website from the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors promises to be a one-stop-shop for all information related to the regulated practice of reprocessing single-use medical devices (SUDs).  Available at either www.ResponsibleReuse.org or www.AMDR.org, the site is designed with simple navigation and actionable information for health and environmental policy makers, hospital supply chain purchasers, resear ..read more

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out a strategy in which we can ensure that our hospital is functioning at optimal levels with shelves that are full of clean and ready-to-use medical devices. To reuse or to dispose is the question. Do you have the best solution? Click here to read the full article. The post Healthcare Purchasing News: Mission Improcessable – Economy, ecology and efficacy demand a combination of resources and contingencies for all appeared first on AMDR | Association of Medical Device Reprocessors ..read more