Carbon Footprint

VIENNA — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, Sjoerd Elferink, MD, speaks about tools and tangible initiatives that ophthalmologists and ophthalmic nurses could use to make their practice more sustainable.

VIENNA — A study carried out in a U.K. university teaching hospital found that cataract surgery produces a disproportionate amount of inappropriate clinical waste as compared with major oculoplastic operations.

The keto and paleo diets had the lowest scores for overall nutritional quality among popular diets, while having the highest carbon emissions, a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found.

KOLOA, Hawaii — David F. Chang, MD, was awarded the Philip M. Corboy, MD, Memorial Award and Lecture for Distinguished Service to Ophthalmology at Hawaiian Eye 2023.

Researchers identified transportation, natural gas and water to be the top contributors to emissions from hemodialysis centers, resulting in 58.9 kg carbon dioxide equivalents of emissions from a single center during 2020.

A U.K. coalition of health care companies and agencies is working to reduce the environmental impact of health care, including diabetes management, according to a speaker at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.

In April, the American Society of Nephrology released a statement calling on kidney health professionals to take action against climate change.

During 2020, emissions from a single hemodialysis treatment were 58.9 kg carbon dioxide equivalents, according to data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Patients with asthma who switched from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler cut their inhaler carbon footprint by more than half, without loss of asthma control, according to data published in Thorax.

Adopting a “One Health” approach to diet choices and nutrition recommendations can offer health and environmental benefits, according to findings published in Science of the Total Environment.