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Nitrous Oxide Waste Reduction Project Charter Summary
A two-page summary of the nitrous oxide wastage project charter, including potential metrics, root causes and change ideas.
Project Charter
Maximum Surgical Blood Ordering Schedule (MSBOS) (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador: Department of Health and Community Services Provincial Blood Coordinating Program)
The Maximum Surgical Blood Ordering Schedule (MSBOS) designates the appropriate pretransfusion testing secondary to the estimated quantity of blood product units required to facilitate the potential need of 90 per cent of patients undergoing specific surgical procedures. Adoption of the MSBOS allows for efficient allocation of blood on the day of scheduled surgery.
Document
Mitigating the environmental impacts of anesthetic gases in healthcare (Alpamys Issanov, UBC Sustainability Scholar)
The purpose of this research project was to explore existing anesthetic gas emissions reduction initiatives, to understand contributions of anesthetic gas emissions across four health organizations in British Columbia, and to prioritize the action needed to reduce their impact.
Report
Guidelines to the Practice of Anesthesia: Revised Edition 2023 (see Section 10: Guidelines for Environmental Sustainability; p. 20) (Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society)
These Guidelines are intended to apply to all anesthesiologists in Canada. The independent practice of anesthesia is a specialized field of medicine, and as such, it should be practiced by physicians with appropriate training in anesthesia.
Guide