ArticleFuture healthcare journal2023
The Green Surgical Block 4.0: Automation of the operating theatre's climate conditions through a real-time patient-flow solution.
Article in Future healthcare journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Green Surgery: Current Evidence, Challenges, and Future Directions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Review
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- Integrating Energy Efficiency into Healthcare Operations: A Discrete-Event Simulation Approach for Surgical Pathways.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Green transplant: A scoping review of sustainability challenges and opportunities in transplantation.World journal of transplantation · 2026Review
- Towards NetZero for hospital operating theatres.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Green Surgery and Sustainability in Orthopaedic Operating Rooms: A Comprehensive Review of Environmental Initiatives.Cureus · 2025Review
- Looking back, looking forward.Future healthcare journal · 2023Article
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- Erratum issued
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9 authors.
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Abstract
The energy consumed by surgery units constitutes a staggering part of the overall healthcare carbon footprint. Partly due to the demanding climate conditions necessitated by operating theatres (OTs), energy is also wasted because of poorly managed heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems (HVACs) that consume up to 57% of the total energy used in a hospital. With their goal of optimising OTs' performance and reducing patient waiting lists, heads of surgery units worldwide do not dare to risk cancelling scheduled surgery because of problems with the OT environment conditions (ie temperature, humidity, pressure). Current solutions are monolithic, complex and completely disconnected from healthcare logic, failing to take into account the idiosyncrasy of hospitals. This article presents an innovation that uses real-time patient flow data to automate and optimise the OT's climate conditions.
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