Tray Rationalization in Pediatric Day Surgery: A Sustainable Quality Improvement Project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Climate change poses a major threat to human health. The decontamination of used surgical equipment has been identified as a "carbon hotspot" in theaters. Surgical tray rationalization, which removes enough instruments to shrink the tray size, has a significant impact on carbon footprint, providing that there is not an increase in individually wrapped instruments used.

Methods

Using the sustainability in quality improvement framework, we rationalized the surgical tray used for pediatric open herniotomies at the Oxford University Hospitals John Radcliffe site. Data on instrument utilization and individually wrapped instruments were prospectively collected. Our tray redesign had no threshold utilization rate for instrument exclusion and focused on removing enough in

SUBMITTER: Ferris E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11994143 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature