Environmental sustainability from anesthesia providers' perspective: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The world faces a significant global health threat - climate change, which makes creating more environmentally sustainable healthcare systems necessary. As a resource-intensive specialty, anesthesiology contributes to a substantial fraction of healthcare's environmental impact. This alarming situation invites us to reconsider the ecological health determinants and calls us to action.

Methods

We conducted a single-center qualitative study involving an online survey to explore the environmental sustainability from anesthesia providers' perspectives in a center implementing internal environmentally-sustainable anesthesia guidelines. We asked care providers how they perceive the importance of environmental issues in their work; the adverse effects they see on ecologic

SUBMITTER: Gasciauskaite G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10655271 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature